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We Know Not the Time or the Way… The beginning of sorrows is now. Global persecution and danger are found worldwide. Universal mourning is prevalent among all of God’s people. How are God’s watchmen to convey the timing and the methods that will so desolate humanity as to erase all identifying differences except that of the godless who continue in their opposition to God and are purged at his coming or the faithful watching for his return. Knowing the time is not the objective of our studies. Our objective must be our readiness. This can only be accomplished in our clinging to every word of God. National security, emerging diseases, global governance, racial crisis, will seem as meager matters compared to the besetting demonic conditions to be imposed upon the human race. The horrors of war and famine will display the depravity of mankind. The purpose…to reveal the character and corruption of the influence that Satan has upon those who utter hatred for God. We must now compare the prophetic accounts and get the fullest picture of reality that we have clear commentary as the book comes to a close. There will be an awful torment to be experienced. Most targeted by the world and by the enemy will be those that God has ordained to accomplish His purposes through His calling. The timing is settling around the abomination. It is the way that the events will present themselves that will overwhelmingly surprise us. We offer no speculation. God will reveal to His as the more time we spend with God, the more teachable we become concerning Him and the more truth we discover about God, the more profound He becomes to us and the more we seek to maintain a biblical balance between looking forward to his coming and living in holiness in the present, the more we bring glory to our God. winepress Life experiences will approach unto such spiritual calamity as to deeply empty the soul. The valley of sorrow will see the end of human strength as the trials, the troubles eat away spiritual self-confidence. The only hope will come from knowing and depending on God alone. We must be sufficiently advanced in grace to be ready to behold the mysteries of the time and the agony of the ways of the winepress. There will be an inner chamber of grief shut out from human knowledge. It would not be possible for any believer, however experienced, to know for himself all the mental suffering and hellish malice to be set forth. We will surely drink of the master’s cup and be baptized with his baptism. We will know unutterable woe. In enduring the immersing into sorrow’s depths, we will be driven to the very verge of distraction by the intensity of our anguish. Grief will be of a most extraordinary character. No sorrow like this sorrow has been since the will of Jesus was tried in the garden. Wisdom itself rebukes us with the question, can we understand the ways of agonies upon us? We cannot do more than look at the revealed causes of grief as we fully comprehend the meaning of sin and see it as a thing exceeding sinful. It is as though the shadows of death cover us. This is not the wrath of God that is determined upon the wicked. This is the trial of faith for the redeemed who will have not the desire to sleep in the grave. This time, these ways are sin in its natural blackness. But oh, thank God for the thought that at this hour our spirits may be encouraged as heaven is looking upon us. The foresight of the trials will not match the grievousness of the trials. This, ere we pass from the contemplation. We know this is but the shallow streams of sorrow—ahead of the buffeting with the swellings of Jordan. It is not possible for us to lift the veil of what revelation will permit to fall, but we can form some faint idea because of the hate speech, hate crimes, ethnic violence, and wars seen today. Hate is the mantra of our time. The bible foretells us of this…the love of many shall wax cold…perilous times shall come, without natural affection, fierce despisers. The level of hatred today reflects the malicious and wicked influence of Satan the Devil upon the minds of many. There is a purposed reason revealed why God says, “Esau I hate.” God hates wickedness…their thoughts, their evil ways, their pretended worship, the seduction of God’s people. Wickedness is first a mark of the deepest rebellion against God and against His law. Because these sinful people cannot storm the gates of heaven to dethrone and destroy God Himself, they turn on what is dearest to Him and nearest to His image. And so, they act out their wickedness against other people. They hurt them, harm them, main them, and will kill them. Every attempt will be put forth to put us to shame. We will be brought low becoming a prey to death because of our faith in every word of God. God hates the wicked because their wickedness is expressed particularly against God’s elect. Wicked people turn their fury against God’s people, mocking them, persecuting them, putting them to death. God’s people choose not to hate those who hate them. The enemy will find nothing in us that fouls the character. We will not be alone. Heaven is with us. Angels of God will be sent to attend us. May we pause for consideration of God’s calling His election for purpose. God must allow the enemy’s request to move forward less there be any question to His fairness. There must never be any casualness or disregard to our studying the word of God. We are to prove the strength of the atonement of Jesus. As stars of God, the light given us of His glory must never be quenched. We must do our all to fill the courts of heaven with choristers of God. As we are smitten, others will be gathered. Recall how Jesus was beheld as the only begotten of the Father. This does not mean that Christ was like the only-begotten of the Father…He is really so. And as we are the purposed election called and chosen by God, we are not just an expression in the bible, not a mere likeness to a thing, but the very thing itself. In the darkest of times, in every way of trial and trouble, we will be that very better thing. We will be the faith of Jesus. This is the phenomenon of the revelation of the mystery. We will be unrivalled as a people of God. As Christ proved the mighty power of his love in great drops of blood, the very observation of our faith will show the nourishing of the Spirit in our inner being as we pass through the trials. This will be our lot, and this we are to teach others. This is not something we seek. Therefore, our unceasing prayer, our prayer in loneliness, is “Lord, in the power of your word, help me through this thing…for your name’s sake.” This is the sword in our solitude. This is God exalting us in due time. This is our stronghold in the day of trial as we are confident to plead our adoption. This is our faith in our Intercessor. The events we know. The time we know not. The ways we know not, but his advent we know of a certainty…therein is our hope needed for the terrific struggle upon us. Herein is our victory in the battle. His enduring suffering and choiced death bears record that atonement was made not only at the cross. For this purpose the restraints upon the enemy are loosened. The enemies of God will be allowed to touch our bones, our flesh, their fiendish energies will be united…but our heart…our soul…our spirit…We will face in each one conflict all that craft could invent, all that malice could devise, all that infernal practice could suggest. We will face the devil in the form of men. It is quite likely that many of God’s people will die in the final days before the close of probation. Some will come to this time and loose something else. One of the most serious losses to affect some of the professed people of God will a loss of trust. How could a person spend all that time with Jesus and still be willing to betray Him? Because God loves us there are some particularized challenges that He will deliver to each of us. God gives us truth teachings that are revealed so that as we meet them, we shall know that we have felt them, because we will feel them deeply and keenly and pervasively. The way of these trials will be so exquisite and so severe. We are not forgotten, never forsaken. For the sake of righteousness, to endure, to be patient in the midst of affliction, in the midst of being misunderstood, and in the midst of suffering - that is being purposed by determination to be called as God’s chosen to display His great love and electing grace, He chose us, and through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, is transforming the thoughts and actions of His people now and to become. Ultimately, all of God's purpose in election is done to the praise of His glorious grace. We show His love even when there is no reciprocity. It is hard doctrine, but we will be tried in all things being prepared for the worthiness of the kingdom. It is the trial of our faith that will write our true witness. It is the leaving us in this world, even though we are not of it, for a moment that prepares us for the better world. His will will be done in, by, for, and through us. Every seemingly unconnected past moment, as we look back, take form and pattern. For there is in each of our lives this kind of divine design, this pattern, this pattern this purpose that is in the process of becoming, which is continually before the Lord but which for us, looking forward, is sometimes perplexing. Do nothing to escape the calling that comes to us. The reality of the purpose will be revealed in the truths studied for approval. The adversary will press particularly in the areas of our vulnerabilities. Let this not take us unaware. Think not that our lot is so hard or that when we feel our selves misunderstood, that it is right for us to indulge ourselves in feeling some self- pity. There will be times when the enemies of God darken the light with false coverings…so much the better for God. We will fight in the shade! We must be ready to fight in the shade of circumstance. One of the ways we can have perspective that will permit us to fight in the shade of circumstances is to study the scriptures and have involvement - intellectually and spiritually. We may know and understand that God is totally serious about His purpose to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of His election. That His chief concerns are but for the growth of souls, the celestializing of the souls with whom He purposed by election. Brothers and sisters, we discern that something special is happening in our lives but are not able to sort it out with sufficient precision and clarity that we can articulate it to someone else. That is so often the truth of the gospel. Its truths are too powerful for us to entertain them ceremoniously or as a special event as though they are only truths sometimes. Truths move us beyond personal motivation to purpose for favorable opportunity in significant events during times of trials. This trouble will help many to understand that the truth of God is real, because He is warning all about it now. So why not bypass this time and the atrocious ways that will accompany it. The attitude of the world today makes most obviously why there must be a time of trouble like none other. Satan’s accusations that God is presented as a withholding, untrustworthy being who can hold His creatures in submission only by death threats is to be revealed for the deceptive purposes devised to impress the rebellious human race that freedom is not based on obedience but rather on imagined superiority. The purpose is to cause our standing to be closer to eternity. The existence of God, the character of God, the love of God and the true consequences of sin are etched out powerfully by God's working in history. But remarkably, the lessons are all too often lost on the defiant people who are of disbelief. amnesia The power of the sin illusion is that amnesia sets in quickly and dark minded people use such displays of sin as a power that works as evidence against God. Many say they can’t trust God in the small challenges of life, how will we have confidence in Him in the large things? The punctuated episodes of dreadfulness and conflict throughout history has been allowed by God to potently impact the chaos to come upon the earth. God has patiently blunted the full impact of sin's destructive power. But here finally at the end of time, in ways that will once and for all vindicate the character of God, God must lift the restraint and expose the true reality that is the dark underside of the cosmic rebellion. While this lifting of restraint is an act of divine judgment and revelation, like all manifestations of the wrath of God, there is a component of "letting alone" for those who hold the truth in unrighteousness and are given over to a reprobate mind so that the true principles of God's enemy and the natural outworking of the sin principle are revealed. Then under God’s guidance Satan will then plunge the inhabitants of the earth into one great, final trouble. As the angels of God cease to hold in check the fierce winds of human passion, all the elements of strife will be let loose…a time of trouble in a way that never man could imagine or devise. This will precede the universal close of probation and the rendering of the final plagues. Before it is all over everyone alive will have made a decision about whom they will worship. Everybody is shouldered off the fence by these happenings. Multitudes offer allegiance to the beast creature while a remnant worship the Creator God. As the world polarizes, a stark clarity emerges. The seductive principles that have mesmerized most of the world are revealed as horrific, destructive lies. The trustworthiness of God is vindicated. May I advance this thought? This is to be the greatest time in history to be alive. For God’s people and those who come to Christ will be His elect and very elect. In the face of tribulation, distress, and persecution we are overcomers powered by our faith in the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. We will experience an unprecedented sense of purpose during this time. Life will come into focus like never before. The earth will be in complete upheaval. Crucible crisis will recede into nothingness. The one truly important issue…the matter of supreme faithfulness. Who is worthy of our worship? Is Jesus truly Lord or not? Is He Lord of our lives? As during this awful time, we experience His Lordship in new and powerful ways, as the "latter rain" of the Holy Spirit drenches us, and a host of distractions fall away, this will be a time never known before. We will experience profound personal transformation during this time. The purpose of this time goes beyond the unmasking of the heavy blackness of evil and confronts us with the ways in pressure which it has taken root in the hearts of man. We will experience absolute spiritual exhaustion in this prologue to endless joy. For six thousand years, God’s people have known “times of trouble” and “days of distress” would continue to the last days. The scriptures describe the faithful not as those who never saw trouble, but as those who cried out to God in their crises. The believer who worries that they want to escape trials and trouble through death is in danger. They don’t have faith in God to strengthen and protect them even when times are rough before the great time of trouble. Faith can conquer any situation. Faith in God will be tried to the uttermost. Persecution of believers who have this level of faith reflects God’s power, truth, and grace even while being burned at the stake. In the end of time, the strong in Christ will endure the pressure of the beast’s power, the political and religious entity. They are faithful and obedient to the commands of God. As a result, they are recognized specifically as those who suffer for the purpose of revealing God’s glory. The bible emphasizes the terrible conditions during the great tribulation predicted by Daniel and Jesus. These were written as warnings for future generations. They paint a dark, bleak picture for those who will not heed the truth. There is no precedence for the type of situations coming. In the time of the deepest turmoil on earth, God will have a people who demonstrate to the universe staying faithful to God even amid extreme difficulty showing the glorification of God working through us. The bible tells us that Jesus stands up for his people. The bible gives us this powerful allusion to strength, decision, and finality of our Savior. It tells us that Jesus has had enough. This is not a deliverance from the time of trouble but through the time of trouble. We will not escape persecution; we will endure it. There is a people at this time who spue hatred in torrents of flames that are intended for destruction. These are those thinking they are living in peace and safety in this society and are a sensitive narcissistic generation who could care less about God. They are caught unaware when the Lord “stands up.” Because of their subconscious darkness they have no understanding of the time. They are lords of their own nightmares. These unbelievers wrapped up in everyday life apart from God are contrasted with those who stay faithful to God. Our eyes are looking upward. We are covered. The others are looking to nature to save them. We don’t know the time, we don’t know the way. We are tempted to ask when God, when, and how God, how. God wants us to live by discernment - revelation knowledge, not head knowledge. We learn to trust God by going through many experiences that require trust. By seeing God's faithfulness over and over, we let go of trusting ourselves, and we place our trust in Him. We see how timing plays an important part in learning to trust God. The exact timing of His plan will be perfect. The ways of His plan will fulfill His every purpose. We must began to see major fulfillment of what God has called us to do. God’s timing is often a mystery. His trouble has purpose…to fit us for the kingdom. 📖 Applying the Study For ongoing spiritual encouragement and prophetical insights, visit Higher Learning.

Give me scripture... Adam (sinless flesh, no sin in him). Jesus (sinful flesh, no sin in him). We, unlike either the first or the second Adam (sinful flesh, sin in us). To go to heaven we must have the mind of Christ to cease to sin on earth like Christ and we must lose the corruption of the flesh being as like Adam. Tangible evidence says that Jesus’ flesh was changed at the resurrection. Was it as the flesh of Adam before sin? Did sin change the flesh of Adam? No. The flesh of man was changed by the birth through the woman by the seed of the man for neither did the woman have sinful flesh. A transformed body, a spiritual body, a glorified body, a heavenly body, no longer subject to death and decay and corruptibility. It has put on immortality. It is how we are changed at the coming of Christ. Lazarus had not immortality, neither Enoch, Elijah, Moses, or those released from the grave after Jesus’ resurrection. None will without us. The doctrine of the resurrection of Jesus Christ is essential. It is at the very core of the Gospel. The bodily, flesh and bones character of our hope of resurrection or moment of change is emphatic in biblical truth. It is by far the fullest treatment of the believer’s hope of resurrection and glorious transformation to imperishability within the entire bible. Resurrection is an event in which the present body is sown, but a body distinct from the present body is raised. There is this affirmation that the present body will be “changed” and “clothed” of necessity implying its revivification and enhancement. Predicate complements describe a change of quality rather than of substance, in which what was once perishable, dishonored, weak, and mortal is endowed with imperishability, glory, power, and immortality. Two contrasting modes of existence of the same body, one prior to, and the other subsequent to the resurrection, the change. A spiritual body refers to a body composed of spirit, distinct from the body of flesh. The first Adam was made a living soul, such a being as ourselves, and with a power of propagating such beings as himself, and conveying to them a natured body like his own, but none other, nor better. The second Adam is a quickening Spirit; he is the resurrection and the life. The first man was of the earth, made out of the earth, and was earthy; his body was fitted to the region of his abode: but the second Adam is the Lord from heaven; he who came down from heaven, and giveth life to the world; he who came down from heaven and was in heaven at the same time; the Lord of heaven and earth. If the first Adam could communicate to us natural and animal bodies, cannot the second Adam make our bodies spiritual ones? If the deputed lord of this lower creation could do the one, cannot the Lord from heaven, the Lord of heaven and earth, do the other? We must first have natural bodies from the first Adam before we can have spiritual bodies from the second; we must bear the image of the earthy before we can bear the image of the heavenly. Such is the established order of Providence. We must have weak, frail, mortal bodies by descent from the first Adam, before we can have lively, spiritual, and immortal ones by the quickening power of the second. We must die before we can live to die no more. Yet if we are Christ's, true believers in him for this whole discourse relates to the resurrection of the faithful, it is as certain that we shall have spiritual bodies as it is now that we have natural or animal ones. By these we are as the first Adam, earthy, we bear his image; by those we shall be as the second Adam, have bodies like his own, heavenly, and so bear his image. And we are as certainly intended to bear the one as we have borne the other. As surely therefore as we have had natural bodies, we shall have spiritual ones. The dead in Christ shall not only rise, but shall rise thus gloriously changed. Does scriptural context describes the composition of the future body, as a body composed solely of spirit? Spiritual body does not refer to a body composed of spirit, but to the fleshly body endowed with imperishable life by the power of the Spirit. What raised up Jesus? Who gives to us the earnest of the spirit? Was Jesus a spirit? Can this change be beyond our view of reality? It is very important that we understand that Jesus is God. It takes God in the Person of Jesus to save us. Jesus is called ‘the Great God and Savior.” We must give tremendous priority to Jesus’ return and his own resurrection from the dead. No matter what it cost; no matter what the obstacles. Remember, the bible truth says, “by any means”. We are resident on earth but our permanent citizenship is in heaven. Our citizenship is in heaven, from where we eagerly await our Savior who will transform the body of our humiliation to be like the body of His glory. The reality of truth deserves reasoning. If anyone is not looking forward to the resurrection, to be with God in the place prepared for them, God is ashamed of them. The implications are frightening. These are not ones who die in faith confessing themselves to be strangers. God is not ashamed to be called their God. When is this truth of the new creature to be? Do they have a new name, and wear a new livery, a new heart and new nature? Or is this change the grace of God made in the soul? Old thoughts, old principles, and old practices, are passed away; and all these things must become new. Regenerating grace creates a new world in the soul; all things are new. The renewed man acts from new principles, by new rules, with new ends, and in new company. A thought: what inner turmoil, what internal deliberation and confusion do we have about why we have not ceased to sin? Do we doubt as did Thomas? Why are we unbelieving when we have the evidence of a sinless being at creation and at the giving of the Son of God? What separates us from the joy, the wonder of not sinning? Are we as the disciples: opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. Unless our minds are about what has been written about him we will not see the first resurrection, the change. Jesus must be our worship life. The entirety of the scripture points to him. The story of Israel must be stitched to the story of Jesus. The scripture is not spontaneously clear about everything. One needs instruction, something that opens the mind, in order to be able to understand them. It is only after that we learn of Christ how to worship that we worship, trust, are joyful, in the spirit of truth that we come to reverence and bless God. We hear the gospel when it is taught to us. We receive the gospel when we agree with its message and appropriate it for ourselves. We take our stand on the gospel when it becomes the foundation stone of our lives. We are reminded of the gospel with every word that we come to truth in reasoning. Faith must be sustained as it relates to the resurrection. The motivation for the way we live should be the anticipation of the coming of the Lord and the resurrection. No one can force another to readiness; all we can do is make it possible by showing the way. It is a matter of choice. It should make us choose to live differently. We are to tell others all these things. Urge, advise, encourage, warn and rebuke with full authority. Let none of us refrain from teaching truth. We have to be ready for the Lord. We have to be at peace. As much as is humanly possible, live at peace with one another. Note the words “first of all” in the inheritance chapter of the bible. This is the rock of our truth – Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. Jesus died for us in keeping with the prophecy of old testament scripture. Note the words of the faith of Job echoing the inheritance chapter,“for I know that my redeemer liveth”. Hope in the coming resurrection. And the prophetic wisdom of Daniel, “And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake”. Faith in the coming resurrection. Seeing Jesus in the flesh after the cross was essential for apostleship. The believing sight of Jesus was greater than the sun at the zenith of the sky, and it caused Saul to be without sight. As we await Christ’s return, our lives should reflect a resurrection mindset. When we think on the resurrection we think on the things of the Spirit. We glorify God. The resurrection matters because when we think on it, it determines what we do. We obey the word of God. Put off sinful patterns. Unbelievers can’t do what God commands. Isn’t that an amazing and stunning thought? Those who don’t have the Holy Spirit, those who are unbelievers, are enslaved to sin. They can’t obey because they lack resurrection life. We sin because often we put our hope in what is passing away instead of what awaits us. To unbelievers: if the truth were to be told, there is much more evil in an unbeliever than these would ever admit. There are secret sins that would embarrass deeply if they were known. Imagine this: imagine a movie screen suddenly came down and all were on the screen. And everyone was able to watch the things of good or evil done in the life. All see those who get angry or commit chosen sin and the thoughts in the heart are open for all to see. Others could read the thoughts, and others see the jealousies felt when someone or something betters them. The bitterness and resentment felt is devastating. Now believers have just as much to be embarrassed about. Believers have practiced evil as well, but through love, faith, obedience, and repentance have found forgiveness in Jesus Christ. A resurrection mindset leads to holiness. We can have that mindset because God has made known to us a glorious mystery “which is Christ in you, the hope of glory”. The mortal body is not the whole story. The Spirit in us is life because of righteousness. Now that is a strange phrase. The Spirit is life because of righteousness. Only because we belong to Christ can we be brought to eternal life. Bodies that were dead, bodies that are alive will be changed. But only for those who are righteous. Only for those who have the Holy Spirit. Our sins separate us from God. So, we aren’t righteous because of our own goodness. None of us can earn such life by obeying since God demands perfection. We need the righteousness and goodness of another. And this is where Jesus Christ comes in. He always did the Father’s will. He was the only perfect human being. And yet Jesus was crucified on a cross and suffered. Why did he suffer? Because of his great love for human beings. For our sake and for our salvation he bore our sins on the tree. The punishment we deserved was poured out on him. He absorbed the wrath of God that we should have experienced. But that wasn’t the end of the story. God was pleased with his Son’s obedience and raised him from the dead, showing that the sacrifice on our behalf was accepted. If we trust in him, if we believe in him, if we give our lives to him, then we become his children. We put our lives in his hands, and he gives us his righteousness and his life. And because he lives, we will live forever and ever and ever. And when we see Jesus on the day of our change, the day of the righteous dead’s resurrection, we will understand in a way that we don’t now, why God made us. For then we will see the King in his beauty. What means this resurrection mindset is so significant? Let’s embrace the truthfulness of the bible’s claims. Our access to the resurrection of Jesus is really no different than the access we have to nearly all historical events: we access historical events through the witnesses that were present and the testimony of written records provided. Resurrection is a historical claim that everyone must face to their own salvation or their everlasting condemnation. It’s not something that can be ignored. It’s not just a religious idea...not a mythological story. Jesus’ resurrection means that God is faithful to his word. Jesus’ resurrection means that Jesus himself is righteous. Death is God’s judicial response to sin. Jesus’ resurrection means that Jesus’ people are forgiven and declared righteous when they believe and accept all his acts of grace and mercy. When Christ bore our sin on the cross, he created a value of grace and righteousness that changes the lives of those who have faith in every word of God. The cross of Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. Jesus’ resurrection means that his people are free to live for God. In other words, there’s an objective, historical reality: Christ died and was raised from the dead. But then there’s also a mysterious union between Christ and his people, such that what happens to Christ in the past makes necessary what happens to his people as they’re united to him by faith in their own lifetime. Christ’s historical resurrection transforms our present experience when we believe in him. Fear moves to love, despair to joy. Our worth to God is confirmed. Compelled to be better in hopes of seeing loved ones together with God. Because he still lives to God, his people can live to God. When we’re united to Christ, moral transformation occurs. Jesus’ resurrection means that our resurrection is “already and not yet.” Jesus’ resurrection means that God’s new creation is also “already and not yet.” Jesus’ resurrection is the inauguration of that new creation. By rising from the dead, Jesus becomes the new and final Adam who establishes a new humanity dominated by the Holy Spirit. That has personal dimensions: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation”. It also has cosmic dimensions: “The creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God”. So, we’ve already entered the new creation as believers in the reality of faith, and we’re also waiting for the new-creation fullness. Jesus’ resurrection means that he will come again to judge the world. His resurrection does not allow us to approach him neutrally. It’s not something that we believers commit ourselves to as a way of merely easing our troubled conscience. It’s not something that we can just keep to ourselves, as if it helps us to get through life personally but really has no bearing on any others. Rather, Jesus’ resurrection says that all are accountable to him, and that means that everything about our lives matters. History is not the past for God’s people as it is for the world. For people who believe in God, "history" isn't just a collection of past events. It is a narrative actively shaped by God's hand, where past events are seen as part of a larger, ongoing story of God's plan and redemption, allowing us to learn and grow from the past in a way that transcends simply remembering it as a detached sequence of occurrences. We are come to the providence of God in His purposes through us where even seemingly negative events contribute to a greater good. We glean spiritual lessons and insights into God's spirit and truth through Jesus’ character and encounters. We see historical events as a powerful symbol of God's faithfulness and deliverance, offering hope and encouragement for the difficulties that we must face. There is a glory to follow all our sufferings and trials. And there are others who desire to look into the workings of the Holy Spirit in God’s people teaching the gospel. Even the righteous angels long to know more of the resurrection. God's sovereign rule over history is absolute and perfectly righteous. And because God is the author of every moment, history as a form of knowledge is objective without being impersonal - yet personal without being arbitrary or unpredictable. Because of history we have divine revelation to go back to the beginning to see what went wrong and we know about the rest of the world. And the beginning may bring greater understanding to God’s work. Consider the heavens declaring the glory of God and showing His handiwork. There is a unique and precise celestial sign of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Those who study will appreciate the evidence found as you study to show yourself approved. Without debate, the book of Job, written as God's message is that phenomena of nature to show God's greatness and man's weakness. God shows Job a glimpse of the universe's complexity. God also asks Job to trust in his wisdom and character. The stars presented a sign of the birth of Jesus. I dare not deprive a people of God from acquiring the depth of wisdom associated with “truths” discovery. The heavens testifies of the greatest event in history, the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. By what source did Enoch prophesy? Of the prophecy of Enoch we have no mention made in any other place of scripture; yet now it is scripture that there was such prophecy. One plain text of scripture is proof enough of any one point that we are required to believe, especially when relating to a matter of fact; but in matters of faith, necessary saving faith, we are tried. The bible tells us of Christ's coming to judgment that we might receive and acknowledge truth. We are told for what great and awful ends and purposes he will come. Enoch, showing as also will the 144000, prophesied the resurrection...”behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints”. Signs in the heavens...what did God reveal to Abraham. “And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.” There is a reason that God preserved the ancient stars positions by His divine hand that we too might have witness to His power. God will use signs in the heavens to signal the beginning of His intervention to punish humanity for our sins – and to rescue us from self-destruction before the great and terrible day of the Lord. The sixth seal offers a prelude. Thoughts of the resurrection reveals mystery truths of God. We are informed how truth and faith affects us. Not despite our past, but, because of it, God has a plan to turn it for a great purpose and a beautiful tomorrow. We must not truncate the gospel by leaving off the culmination of the whole salvation message. There must never be offered a defense for sin. Death is not the end of the book; there is another chapter, and it is called the resurrection. There is no eternal life without resurrection. There is much more to salvation than just eternal life which in itself is wonderful; but the pinnacle of human history is the resurrection. Our salvation can be likened to a spiritual ‘betrothal’. Our union with Jesus will not be complete until our resurrection. There is incredible excitement in heaven. What is it all about? It’s about you and me. If we are truly longing for Jesus’ appearing, it shows in the way we live; the practical outworking in our daily lives. We should be living lives differently to those who are not awaiting the appearance of Jesus. The longing should cause us to cultivate personal holiness. An indication that we are anticipating the Lord’s return is continuing prayer. That is very important. We can know doctrinally that Jesus is going to return, but unless we spend time in God’s Word and in prayer, it will seem a very distant event. There is no way we can be constantly filled with anticipation for Jesus’ return, unless we shut ourselves in with God’s Word and spend time with Him in prayer. We are going to need strength through prayer to stand in the last time. Prayer is an essential part of our relationship with God. There is no substitute for holiness and righteousness. God knows when there will be a generation ready for the return of the Lord. It is the generation that brings this gospel of the kingdom to all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. The word of God reveals all the wisdom needed to come to be one who enters life eternal at the return of Christ. Christ did not die for Himself. He died the death of Adam and Eve and of all their descendants. He died our death. The gospel validates and transforms our lives. All of the aspects of the gospel - Jesus’ sinless life and sacrificial death, are vital. But this part - the resurrection - is what gives us our greatest confidence and hope in the entirety of the gospel - because the resurrection is the means of a transformed life. Jesus’ resurrection points to our own. Jesus is the firstfruits of the resurrection. Firstfruits is an interesting and helpful word because it carries with it the clear idea that Jesus is not the only one who will be resurrected. Jesus was the first, but He is by no means the last. More fruit is coming. The framework of creation, the fall, redemption, and transformation by the renewal of the mind is central to the gospel story that runs throughout the pages of scripture. This framework plays a significant role in how we understand God’s active work in all of creation. Jesus will restore all things to God’s intended design. Resurrection speaks of completion and restoration - completion of the gospel story and restoration when everything God created as very good will once again measure up to that standard. It is by the resurrection that God’s story has always been designed to connect with our story. It is because of His Story that our stories make sense, have meaning, and carry on into eternity. All of God’s work is moving toward this end. The mindset of the resurrection has multiple meanings, including a warning and a message of hope. The resurrection is a warning that judgement day is coming and that His Father will be the judge. The resurrection is a judgment on those who contributed to Jesus' crucifixion. It's a wakeup call to the world to repent. The resurrection is a message of peace and hope. But this peace is not a peace of stillness. Jesus’ salutation to the disciples at his appearance saying, “peace be unto you” was first to calm their fear then he repeated the saying to raise their attention to the message he was sending them forth to teach. Message is the sum and substance of the resurrection. It conveys that Jesus will raise people up from the defeat of death to the victory of life, just as he did himself. It also gives people a mission to spread the good news of God's love and to help establish the kingdom of God. The resurrection is a confirmation that Jesus was who he claimed to be. It's also God's assurance to the true believers that they have been forgiven. With this message that we are given comes the gift of the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit that brings peace and confidence in God. It is the Holy Spirit that gives us courage to take up the mission of Jesus. It is the Holy Spirit that transforms us into the body of Christ. It is the Holy Spirit that inspires us with love for all of our brothers and sisters. It is the Holy Spirit that gives us the power to forgive each other's sins. We see the effects of the resurrection and the power of the Spirit lived out in our witness...our testimony...our faith. The first resurrection to eternal life began in the Garden and was settled in the Garden. But the bible doesn't specify a precise date for its completion. There have been first resurrections, not all from the grave, but some from sleep and none to eternal life except Jesus and there is no indication that any raised are typed as “wicked”. . Moses was resurrected. Lazarus was resurrected. The son of a widow in Zarephath. The son of the Shunammite woman. The man cast into the sepulchre of Elisha. The son of the widow from Nain. Jairus’ daughter. Many saints came out of the graves after Jesus’ resurrection. Tabitha, also called Dorcas was resurrected. And Eutychus. The first resurrection is a process that takes place over time. It involves the prayers, the pleadings, the faith in the power of God. God taught the first pair of the death of their Savior that gave them life when death was their due. The mindset of the resurrection began. And there are untold numbers who faithfully complete their earthly lives since creation that await Christ's appearing the second time. The resurrection gives those who believe in Jesus the power of eternal life. What is the last question...who is this King of glory! 📖 Applying the Study For ongoing spiritual encouragement and prophetical insights, visit Higher Learning.

Faith Anchors Love The intertwining of our faith and love reaches into the core of the great controversy itself, because the final test of faith has never been about outward obedience alone, but about the supreme ordering of love. The trial we now discern is not new; it is as old as Eden, yet it intensifies toward the end of time because it presses upon the deepest affections of the human heart. The question is not whether we love God or love others, but whether God is loved as God—without rival, without displacement, without substitution—so that every other love finds its proper place beneath Him rather than beside Him. Faith is the root that trusts in the unseen, while love is the active expression of that belief, making faith real and motivating actions, with love strengthening faith and faith enabling a deeper, more courageous love, especially in spiritual contexts where faith in God's love inspires love for others, making them inseparable for spiritual growth and a meaningful life. Let’s not skim the surface of Eden, but trace the fault line that runs from Adam’s choice all the way to the final test of allegiance. The last conflict is not primarily between belief and unbelief, but between rightly ordered love and disordered love. That is why it feels so severe. God is not competing with trivial things; He is contending for first place against the most precious things we hold. Anything less would not reveal the heart. In the Garden of Eden, the conflict did not arise because Adam lacked knowledge of God, nor because he doubted God's existence or power. Adam walked with God. He heard His voice. He knew His command. The test that came to Adam was therefore not intellectual but relational. When Eve fell, Adam stood at a crossroads where obedience to God required separation from the one he loved most in creation. His choice was not framed as rebellion but as solidarity. He chose union with Eve over union with God, believing that love justified disobedience. This is the subtlety of the trial: love itself becomes the instrument of the fall when it is no longer anchored in faith. This reveals a crucial truth: faith and love are not enemies, but they can contend when love is detached from truth. Faith, biblically understood, is not mere belief but total allegiance to God as the highest good. Love, when rightly ordered, flows from that allegiance. But when love for a created being eclipses love for the Creator, faith collapses—not because love is evil, but because it has been elevated beyond its proper sphere. Adam’s sin was not that he loved Eve, but that he loved her more than God, even if only for a moment. This same pattern repeats throughout Scripture. Abraham was asked to place Isaac on the altar, not because God despises family love, but because the promise itself threatened to become the object of Abraham’s faith rather than the Giver of the promise. God’s question to Abraham was not whether he loved his son, but whether he trusted God even if obedience appeared to contradict the very fulfillment of God’s own word. In this way, faith is tested precisely at the point where obedience costs what we cherish most. Jesus later articulated this same principle with uncompromising clarity. When He declared that anyone who loves father or mother, son or daughter more than Him is not worthy of Him, He was not advocating emotional detachment or cruelty. He was revealing the architecture of the kingdom. The kingdom of God is not sustained by balanced affections but by supreme devotion. Every other love must pass through God to remain pure. When it does not, it becomes a competing throne. The depth of faith required to overcome everything is therefore not stoic detachment from human relationships, but such a profound trust in God that obedience is never negotiated by emotional pressure. Faith at this level believes that God is more loving than we are, more faithful than we are, and more committed to those we love than we could ever be. Adam failed because he believed that disobedience was necessary to preserve love. True faith believes that obedience is the only way love can be preserved eternally. This clarifies the nature of the coming trial. The final conflict will not primarily be about external persecution, though that will come. It will be about internal allegiance. The pressure will be to compromise truth in order to preserve relationships, security, reputation, or even perceived compassion. The temptation will not feel like hatred of God, but like kindness toward others. The deception will whisper that love requires concession, that unity requires silence, that faithfulness is too costly when weighed against human loss. Yet the kingdom of God is entered only by those who believe that God Himself is life. Faith at this depth does not ask, “What will I lose if I obey?” but rather, “Who is God, and is He worthy of everything?” Such faith sees beyond immediate loss into eternal restoration. It trusts that whatever is surrendered to God is not destroyed but refined, not lost but returned in a higher form. Jesus Himself lived this faith when He surrendered His own life, trusting the Father beyond the grave. This also exposes why the final generation must be sealed in character rather than merely convinced in doctrine. Intellectual assent can coexist with divided love. But sealing occurs when the heart has been so thoroughly united with God that no competing affection can overthrow obedience. This is why Scripture speaks of God writing His law on the heart. The law written externally can be obeyed under pressure; the law written internally governs desire itself. Faith of this magnitude is not developed in a moment. It is forged through repeated choices where God is trusted above feeling, above fear, above relational loss, and above self-preservation. Every small act of surrender trains the soul for the greater test. Adam fell at the first such test; the final generation must stand at the greatest. Yet this faith is not humanly generated. It is the fruit of intimate union with Christ. When Christ dwells fully within the believer, His faith becomes their faith. His obedience becomes their obedience. His love orders their loves. This is why the mystery of godliness is central to the end-time people. Without Christ within, the demand of supreme faith would crush the soul. With Christ within, obedience becomes the natural expression of love. Therefore, the trial between faith and love is resolved not by choosing one over the other, but by allowing God to define love. When God is first, love becomes truthful, courageous, and eternal. When God is second, love becomes sentimental, fearful, and ultimately destructive. The fall began when Adam reversed this order. Redemption is completed when humanity, restored in Christ, refuses to repeat it. The depth of faith required to overcome everything is the faith that sees God as the source, sustainer, and goal of all love. Such faith does not cling to anything as indispensable except God Himself. It rests in the certainty that whatever must be surrendered for obedience will be resurrected in glory, purified of all corruption, and returned in eternal harmony. This is the faith that enters the kingdom—not because it is strong in itself, but because it clings to a God who cannot fail. Adam and Eve truly experienced Sabbath rest with God before the fall. That rest was real, intimate, and unbroken. Yet it was untried. Sabbath united them to God in peace, but not yet in tested allegiance. Love for truth existed, but it had not yet been chosen against loss. Obedience had not yet required separation, sacrifice, or pain. And this distinction explains everything. In Eden, Sabbath rest functioned as gift, not yet as witness. Adam and Eve rested in God because nothing competed with Him. Their love for truth was genuine, but it had never been pressed by fear, grief, or the threat of relational loss. When the serpent introduced distrust, Sabbath rest alone did not carry them through—not because it was insufficient, but because faith had not yet been forged through trial. Rest had been enjoyed, but not defended. This reveals a sobering truth: unbroken communion does not automatically produce unbreakable allegiance. Love deepens not merely by presence, but by choice under pressure. Edenic Sabbath revealed who God was; it did not yet reveal who Adam would be when obedience cost him everything. When Eve stood before Adam fallen, truth now demanded a loss he had never imagined. Sabbath memory could not substitute for faith that trusted God beyond immediate relationship preservation. Adam’s failure was not a rejection of Sabbath, but a refusal to let Sabbath define love rightly. He believed love required solidarity with Eve even at the expense of God’s word. In that moment, love was severed from truth, and rest collapsed. Sabbath could no longer be entered because trust had been broken—not God’s trustworthiness, but Adam’s trust in God’s ability to redeem without disobedience. This is precisely why the final generation must experience Sabbath differently than Adam did. They are not called to rest in an untested Eden, but to rest in God while truth is under assault. Their Sabbath is not merely remembrance of creation, but testimony of redemption. They rest not because nothing threatens obedience, but because everything does—and they choose God anyway. So the answer is this: Sabbath was uniting enough to foster love and obedience in innocence, but not yet sufficient to produce immovable faith. That kind of faith only emerges when Sabbath rest is chosen in defiance of fear, loss, and relational cost. What Adam lost, the redeemed are called to regain—not by returning to Eden’s innocence, but by standing in Christ’s victory. And this is the glory of the end-time Sabbath witness: where Adam rested without trial and fell, a restored people will rest through trial and stand. Let us not circle the truth my dear brothers and precious sisters…let us stand inside of it. Love and truth therefore do not converge in sentiment but in rest. The Sabbath becomes the appointed place where love is tested by truth and truth is upheld through love. It is here that faith reveals its true nature—not as passive belief, but as active trust that dares to rest in God when truth is in power and pressure demands surrender. Sabbath faithfulness exposes whether love is willing to yield to God’s word even when obedience threatens cherished bonds, personal security, or human approval. In this way, Sabbath is not merely a sign of doctrine, but the living intersection where love refuses to betray truth, and truth refuses to be wielded without love. To enter this rest is to declare, in action rather than words, that God alone defines what love is, how it is expressed, and where the heart finally belongs. The intersection of this supreme trial with Sabbath faithfulness reveals one of the most searching realities of all spiritual experience: Sabbath is not merely a command to be kept, but a relational space where love, rest, trust, and allegiance are brought into their final alignment. The Sabbath functions as a living sign of where the heart ultimately rests. It exposes whether faith truly trusts God enough to cease from self-justification, self-protection, and relational compromise, or whether rest itself is conditional upon human approval and security. From Eden onward, rest was designed to be the environment of love. Before sin, Adam and Eve rested in God because they trusted Him completely. Their rest was not inactivity, but confidence—confidence that God was enough, that His word was sufficient, and that nothing outside of Him was necessary for fulfillment. When Adam chose Eve over God, that rest was shattered. The loss of Sabbath was not the loss of a day, but the loss of settled trust in God’s supremacy. Ever since, Sabbath has stood as God’s invitation to return to that original posture of faith-filled rest. This is why Sabbath faithfulness becomes so central in the final conflict. Sabbath confronts the human instinct to secure life through accommodation, performance, and relational preservation. To rest when obedience is costly is to declare that God alone sustains life. It is to testify that love for God is not theoretical but operative, not emotional but covenantal. Here the principle becomes clear: faith proves love when truth is in power. When truth presses against comfort, reputation, livelihood, or cherished relationships, faith reveals whether love for God is supreme or merely convenient. Genuine faith does not merely believe that God is right; it acts in love by standing with God when His truth is unpopular or costly. This is loving in truth. It is not harshness, but loyalty. It is not withdrawal from people, but refusal to betray God in the name of peace. Sabbath observance under pressure therefore becomes an act of love—love that refuses to redefine obedience to preserve human harmony. It declares that God’s truth is not a threat to love, but its only safe foundation. Resting on the Sabbath in the midst of opposition requires profound trust. It means trusting that God can care for those we love better than we can by compromise. It means believing that obedience does not destroy relationships but exposes which relationships are anchored in eternity. This kind of rest silences the fear that says, “If I obey God fully, I will lose everything that matters.” Sabbath faith answers, “If I do not obey God fully, I have already lost everything that matters.” Here, love is purified. Sabbath faithfulness does not negate compassion; it refines it. Love that bends truth to avoid pain ultimately leads to greater loss. Love that stands firm in truth, even when it wounds temporarily, opens the door to healing that lasts forever. This is why Christ could heal, teach, and confront on the Sabbath without violating its purpose. He demonstrated that Sabbath rest is not passive tolerance, but active alignment with the Father’s will. In the final generation, Sabbath will mark those who trust God enough to rest in Him when the world demands participation in its systems of fear and control. The command to rest will stand in direct opposition to the pressure to conform for survival. At that point, Sabbath faithfulness will no longer be abstract theology; it will be lived testimony. Those who keep the Sabbath will do so because they love God more than life, more than safety, more than human approval. This is the farthest extent of the trial: when love for God must be proven not by words or sentiment, but by resting in Him while everything else demands action, compromise, or silence. To keep the Sabbath under such conditions is to proclaim that God alone is Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer. It is to live the truth that faith is not merely believing God, but loving Him enough to let truth govern every affection. Thus, Sabbath becomes the clearest revelation of ordered love. It shows that God is first—not because He competes with other loves, but because He alone gives them life, meaning, and permanence. When God is first, every other love is secured rather than threatened, purified rather than diminished. Sabbath rest testifies that the heart trusts God enough to let Him define love, govern allegiance, and sustain all that is truly worth loving. In this way, Sabbath reveals a faith that does not cling anxiously to created things, but rests confidently in the Creator, knowing that nothing surrendered to Him is ever lost, only redeemed. Sabbath is where the heart can no longer hide behind intention or sentiment. It asks one decisive question: Where do you actually rest when obedience costs you something you love? That is why it stands at the center of the final trial and why “faith proves love when truth is in power”. Faith is the faculty that binds love to truth so neither collapses into distortion. Without faith, love becomes sentiment, and truth becomes severity. Faith is what allows love to obey truth without fear and truth to be upheld without cruelty. Faith signifies its role in essential ways. Faith receives truth as trustworthy. Truth, by itself, can be acknowledged yet resisted. Faith is what consents to truth’s authority. It does not merely agree that God is right; it entrusts itself to God because He is right. This is why Scripture says faith comes by hearing the word of God—faith is the inward “yes” that allows truth to rule the heart rather than remain an external demand. Faith empowers love to act rightly when cost is introduced. Love often desires the good of another but hesitates when obedience threatens loss. Faith bridges that gap. It believes that God’s truth leads to life even when it wounds temporarily. Thus faith enables love to remain loyal to God while still seeking the eternal good of others. This is why genuine love does not abandon truth under pressure; faith assures love that obedience is not betrayal but the highest form of care. Faith sustains rest when love and truth appear to collide. In moments where obedience to truth seems to fracture relationships or security, faith rests in God’s character. It refuses to resolve tension through compromise. Faith holds love steady and truth firm by trusting that God Himself will reconcile what obedience temporarily divides. Here, faith becomes the quiet strength that allows the soul to remain at peace while standing immovable. In this way, faith is not a third element alongside love and truth, but the living bond that makes their union possible. Love gives motive, truth gives direction, and faith gives endurance. Where faith is absent, love drifts and truth hardens. Where faith is present, love obeys and truth heals. Sin would not have entered had Adam’s faith remained anchored in obedience to the truth of God’s word concerning the tree. God’s command was clear, sufficient, and life-preserving, and faith would have held to that truth even when love was tested by loss. Had Adam trusted God fully, his love for Eve would not have compelled disobedience, but surrender. Faith grounded in the love of God would have empowered Adam to entrust the woman to God rather than attempt to preserve her through rebellion. In that moment, obedience would have been the highest act of love, affirming that God was able to redeem what Adam could not save. The fall occurred not because love was too strong, but because faith failed to let truth govern love. Love for God is what grants His word its rightful authority over the soul. When God is loved as God, His word is no longer treated as information to be evaluated, but as truth to be lived. Love does not create truth, but it establishes where truth is enthroned. A heart that loves God does not ask whether His word is reasonable by human standards; it rests in the certainty that whatever proceeds from Him is faithful, just, and life-giving. In this way, love opens the inner court where God’s word is received not as suggestion, but as law written upon the heart. Once God’s word is thus established as truth, that truth becomes the substance of faith. Faith is not belief suspended in uncertainty; it is confidence built upon the proven character of the One who speaks. God’s truth gives faith both content and evidence. It tells faith what to trust and why content and evidence that trust is justified. Faith does not leap blindly; it stands firmly on the reliability of God’s word, which has revealed itself consistent, creative, and redemptive from the beginning. As truth fills faith with substance, faith in turn animates love with endurance. Love desires God; truth defines God’s will; faith binds the two together by trusting that obedience leads to life even when the outcome is unseen. Thus love establishes truth as supreme, truth supplies faith with evidence, and faith returns obedience as living testimony. This holy cycle is how the believer stands unshaken—loving God enough to trust His word, and trusting His word enough to stake everything upon it. Jesus as love is not sentiment, but self-giving made visible. In the fullness of His humanity, love wears a face that can be touched, misunderstood, and wounded. His eyes rest on the broken without recoil; His presence does not hurry past weakness. He loves not by overlooking truth, but by entering fully into the cost of restoring it. In His divinity, that same love holds the universe together—unchanging, inexhaustible, eternal—yet it bends low enough to wash feet and bear nails. Love in Christ is beautiful because it refuses to protect itself. It is strong enough to suffer and remain holy, tender enough to embrace sinners without becoming one. This is love that chooses covenant over comfort, obedience over escape, and redemption over self- preservation. Jesus as faith is trust perfectly embodied. As a man, He lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, not merely quoting Scripture, but resting His entire existence upon it. In hunger, He trusts. In obscurity, He trusts. In Gethsemane, where the weight of separation presses beyond human comprehension, He entrusts Himself fully to the Father’s will. His faith is not confidence in outcome, but unwavering reliance on God’s character. In His divinity, that faith reveals something astonishing: God trusting God through the vessel of humanity. Heaven’s certainty is expressed through human dependence. Faith in Jesus is therefore not belief about Him alone— it is the very posture of His life, showing humanity what it looks like to live fully upheld by God. Jesus as truth is clarity without cruelty, light without distortion. Truth in Him is not merely spoken; it is lived. Every word He speaks aligns perfectly with who He is—there is no fracture between doctrine and desire, command and compassion. As a man, He walks truth into the ordinary spaces of life: tables, roads, homes, and graves. As God, He is truth itself—unchanging reality in a world of shadows. His truth exposes lies not to shame, but to free; it confronts deception not to dominate, but to heal. In Him, truth is never abstract—it has hands that heal, a voice that calls, and a cross that proves it will not retreat when tested.In the beauty of His fullness, love gives substance to truth, truth gives shape to faith, and faith returns all things back to love. His humanity reveals how these virtues are meant to be lived; His divinity assures they will never fail. To behold Jesus is to see what humanity was always intended to be when fully united with God—nothing missing, nothing divided, nothing false. This is why He alone can reconcile heaven and earth, why His life answers the deepest ache of the soul, and why every generation that truly sees Him is changed forever. Philippians anchors this vision not in admiration alone, but in active transformation. “Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” The faith we have is not self-generated resolve; it is the means by which Christ continues His own life within us. The same faith that marked His obedience, His trust, and His surrender is now at work shaping ours. What God began by grace, He advances by faith—patiently, intentionally, without interruption or abandonment. This is how we are brought into His likeness today, not merely at the end. Faith receives Christ as He is, and in receiving Him, allows His love, His truth, and His obedience to be reproduced in us. Each yielding moment, each quiet trust in God’s word, each choosing of truth over fear is evidence that the work is ongoing. We are not striving toward an image God hopes we might reach; we are being formed by the living Christ who already knows the end from the beginning. Faith keeps us aligned with that divine workmanship. Philippians therefore assures us that the beauty seen in Christ—His love unbroken, His faith unshaken, His truth undivided—is not held at a distance from the believer. It is the destination and the process. The God who revealed Himself perfectly in Jesus is the same God faithfully at work within us, completing what He has started, until His likeness is no longer being formed in us by faith, but revealed in fullness when faith gives way to sight. This is the deliberate and faithful work of God within us—Christ living out His own obedience in our yielded lives—by which our hearts are strengthened, our wills are aligned, and the power of sin is broken. As faith cooperates with His ongoing work, love replaces self, truth governs desire, and obedience becomes natural rather than forced. In this purposeful action, sin loses both its appeal and its authority, not because of human resolve, but because Christ’s life is being fully formed within us, enabling us to walk in freedom and to choose righteousness without reserve. 📖 Applying the Study For ongoing spiritual encouragement and prophetical insights, visit Higher Learning.

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