A Deeper Truth: "My relationship with God is Jesus Christ!

[Vine Abider]

This entry from The Supplied Life is, I think, a deeper truth that we all should see.  And if we did, how liberating would it be!?

His Relationship with God--Is Our Relationship

"In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him." 1 John 4:9

To understand the Christian life properly, it is important to see that Christ is our relationship with everything. In Galatians 2:20, when the apostle Paul said, "It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me," he opened up a profound revelation concerning our life--Christ is now our relationship with all things. If Christ now lives in me, with the "I" crucified and no longer in the picture, then I do not have a separate, independent relationship with God. My relationship with God is Christ! In fact, one of the most refreshing things to my spirit is to declare that I do not have a relationship with God. I have declared it many times, and said out loud--"My relationship with God is Jesus Christ!" God has established one unique relationship, and that relationship is with His only begotten Son (John 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18). First John 4:9 says, "In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him." To identify the Son as the only begotten means that God has a relationship with only one Person. Then to directly relate the only begotten Son to us by saying, "that we might live through Him," reveals that His relationship with the Father has now become our relationship.

Jesus is both the Son of God and the Son of Man. As the Son of God, He is the One who has the relationship with God. As the Son of Man, He is the One who has the relationship with man. He is the representative man. Indeed, only one Man has a proper and approved relationship with God and man. That one Man is Jesus Christ. He represents the meaning of man. In Hebrews 2:6 the question is asked, "What is man?" The answer comes in verse 9: "We see Jesus." Jesus Christ is the one Man who has the one, unique relationship with God. Seek no further.

[AdHoc]

On 1/11/2025 at 10:04 PM, Vine Abider said:

This entry from The Supplied Life is, I think, a deeper truth that we all should see.  And if we did, how liberating would it be!?

His Relationship with God--Is Our Relationship

"In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him." 1 John 4:9

To understand the Christian life properly, it is important to see that Christ is our relationship with everything. In Galatians 2:20, when the apostle Paul said, "It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me," he opened up a profound revelation concerning our life--Christ is now our relationship with all things. If Christ now lives in me, with the "I" crucified and no longer in the picture, then I do not have a separate, independent relationship with God. My relationship with God is Christ! In fact, one of the most refreshing things to my spirit is to declare that I do not have a relationship with God. I have declared it many times, and said out loud--"My relationship with God is Jesus Christ!" God has established one unique relationship, and that relationship is with His only begotten Son (John 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18). First John 4:9 says, "In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him." To identify the Son as the only begotten means that God has a relationship with only one Person. Then to directly relate the only begotten Son to us by saying, "that we might live through Him," reveals that His relationship with the Father has now become our relationship.

Jesus is both the Son of God and the Son of Man. As the Son of God, He is the One who has the relationship with God. As the Son of Man, He is the One who has the relationship with man. He is the representative man. Indeed, only one Man has a proper and approved relationship with God and man. That one Man is Jesus Christ. He represents the meaning of man. In Hebrews 2:6 the question is asked, "What is man?" The answer comes in verse 9: "We see Jesus." Jesus Christ is the one Man who has the one, unique relationship with God. Seek no further.

And are we then surprised to find the term "IN Christ" 77 times in the New Testament. The Father sees Christ and is satisfied. That is all we must know - that we are included.

[Vine Abider]

33 minutes ago, AdHoc said:

And are we then surprised to find the term "IN Christ" 77 times in the New Testament. The Father sees Christ and is satisfied. That is all we must know - that we are included.

Yes, repetition in scripture means a lot - He's trying to get something very important through our thick skulls!  When I read that I'm dead, it really means I am out of the way, so that now Christ can be my _____________  (fill in blank)!

[Johanabrahams]

I agree.  And of course in me being a different Child of God I will put the same Truth in my own Words also here. Where we both are Edified in the Same Truth.  And others with us.  Where a meeting in the Name of Jesus between 2 or 3 as he said becomes a Light in the world for Christian Growth. 

 

We exists in Jesus.  He came as our Life from God who became our "Abba Father/Daddy" in Jesus.  Which we can only say in the Holy Spirit when we enter the Righteousness and Holiness in Jesus.  To be Living in Jesus is to be dead to self.  And that is our Perfect Saving Grace from our Dad.  We died!  But in Jesus we are raised out of the grave to Life now In His Life and Existence.  Of course this is a Revelation Process in Growing up in Jesus.  Where Jesus becomes the Word of the Creator which creates nothing less and nothing more in us.  But by bit manifesting the Fullness of the Life in Jesus in us.  Till we enter Adult Life through the Word of Jesus.

[Neighbor]

Jesus is God.

[Neighbor]

Jesus is the Creator.

[Cntrysner]

Jesus is God the Creator and the eternal Spirit (2 Co 3:17).

[Vine Abider]

"All things were made through Him and for Him."  Col :16  Praise God we are in Christ!

[Johanabrahams]

17 hours ago, Cntrysner said:

Jesus is God the Creator and the eternal Spirit (2 Co 3:17).

The Creator is YHWH.  Pronounced Jehovah/Yahweh/Yahuah.  

Isaiah 43:  8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.  9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is truth.  10 Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.  11 I, even I, am Jehovah; and besides me there is no saviour.  12 I have declared, and I have saved, and I have showed; and there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and I am God.  13 Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it? [ASV Translation which is one of many that preserved the actual Name of our Father here and didn't change it to something else.]

Jesus is The Word of Jehovah/Yahweh.  In which we are created to be His Son in the Name of Jesus.  To enjoy our Father in being His Son in Jesus.  Where we are One with Him as we saw in the Word of Jesus.  Where He raises us as His Kids in His Life.  As all fathers do.  And He raises us in the Name of Jesus.   Through the Living Word He Lived in Jesus to give us the Word of our Creation. 

[Johanabrahams]

18 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Jesus is the Creator.

He is the Word of the Creator.   Which creates the actual Person.  Where the Person is a Real Child born of the Living God as His Father and raised in Jesus as His Child and Son.