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What does it mean to truly grow in Christ?

To answer this question, we must be clear that when we first repented and believed in the Lord as our Savior, we received God’s own divine life, and thus became the genuine children of God (John 1:4, 12-13), who now possess His divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4).

Thus, our salvation involves much more than just the forgiveness of sins, as wonderful as that is; it means we allow the divine life to grow and develop within us, according to the law of the Spirit of Life (Rom. 8:2), so that the virtues of the divine nature are manifested from within us (2 Pet. 1:5-8).

This is the genuine growth in Christ we should all strive to experience. And we will experience it as we truly love the Lord, spend time to contact Him in His word and in prayer, and submit to His dealings with us and His leading in our life.

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RESOURCES

Books

Witness Lee
Further Talks on the Knowledge of Life

Mary McDonough
God’s Plan of Redemption

Andrew Murray
The Spirit of Christ
The Secret of the Faith Life

The Standard Version of the New Testament

Online Resources

GodsEternalPurpose.org

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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCED
IN THIS EPISODE

Colossians 1:27: Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Romans 8:29: Conformed to the image of God’s Firstborn Son.
Matthew 17:2, Mark 9:2, Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 3:18: Transformation in the New Testament.
1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12: We are three-part beings, spirit and soul and body!
Exodus 24:1: The principle of man’s religion: Worship God from a distance.
Genesis 1:26: The creation of man.
John 1:1, 4: The life within the Word.
John 1:12-13, 3:3-7: Born anew as the children of God.
Romans 8:2: The law of the Spirit of Life.
1 John 2:20,27: The anointing of the Spirit, telling us to abide in Christ.
Ephesians 3:17-20: Rooted and firmly founded in love to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ.

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Recorded…
in Chicago, Illinois on Friday, 2 August 2024