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If we desire to know Christ and follow Him today, we must be clear about the kind of relationship He desires to have with us, as revealed in the Scripture. And what the Scriptures show us, especially in the New Testament, is this: God wants to be one with mankind. That’s why He became a man in the person of Jesus Christ through the Incarnation; and now He desires to incarnate Himself again in the followers of Christ by imparting Himself as the divine life and nature into our human spirit to make us the genuine Children of God (John 1:12-13, 2 Pet. 1:4), so that in and through us Christ can live His life on the earth once again (Gal. 2:20).

This is the relationship God desires to have with us today.

This reality of God wanting to impart Himself into us is pictured all through the Bible in God presenting Himself to us as our food (e.g., Gen. 2:9, 16; Rev. 22:2, 14, Exo. 12:1-13, Lev. 1-7). And the Lord Himself tells us in the New Testament, in plain words,

As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.
— John 6:57

Only when we see God’s desire to make Himself one with us by imparting His divine life and nature into our being can we really see the importance of our human spirit, because it is our spirit, as God’s dwelling place today (2 Tim. 4:22, 1 Cor. 6:19), that enables us to contact God and receive His divine life and thus enter into a proper, New Testament relationship with God, where we and God become fully one in Christ.

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SUMMARY
What kind of relationship does God want to have with us, as revealed in the Bible?

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Paperback Edition: Our Human Spirit

A Book By Mary E. McDonough
Paperback Edition:  God’s Plan of Redemption

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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCED
IN THIS EPISODE

1 Thessalonians 5:23: “Spirit and soul and body.”
Hebrews 4:12: The dividing of soul and spirit.
Genesis 2:9, 16, Revelation 22:1-2, 14: The tree of life for us to eat.
Exodus 12:1-13: Christ as our Passover for us to partake of.
Leviticus 2:1-10: The mingling of the flour and the oil in the meal offering.
Ephesians 1:5: To take our place as sons.
John 1:12-13, 3:6, 7: Born of God by His divine life in our human spirit.
2 Peter 1:4: Partakers of the divine nature.
John 6:31-32, 48, 51, 57: Feeding on Christ as our living bread.
Romans 1:9: Paul served God in his human spirit.
2 Timothy 4:22: The Lord is with our spirit!
Galatians 2:20: Dying and living with Christ.
Romans 8:29-30: Conformed to the image of Christ in glory.
1 Corinthians 6:19: We are God’s dwelling place.
Matthew 3:13-17: The baptism of Jesus.
John 15:5: Apart from Christ, we can do nothing.

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Recorded…

in Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, 12 December 2024.