(The Following lesson is taken from the book - “The Gospel of the Kingdom of God” – Steve Bray)
We began our study by determining the goal of our faith. And then through Scripture, we have tried to show how God has the power and the desire to manifest a Christ-like nature through our mortal body. We have also tried to emphasis how we do not arrive at the goal of our faith through human effort. The only way someone is able to become like Jesus Christ is through the divine power of God. Our part is to seek out this new life through a dependent faith that is willing to respond to the convicting work of the Holy Spirit, as He leads us toward “the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.” (Eph. 1:18-19)
Many believers have become disappointed in the Christian faith because they find little joy in trying to live out the kingdom-life that our Lord has described in His Sermon on the Mount. They do not experience the fullness of Christ’s life as promised in Scripture. (John 10:10) Although He has told them they would never thirst again if they believed in Him, they continue to find themselves thirsting after the things of this world and under the bondage of the sinful nature. Without an experiential reality of the heavenly life within their soul, they end up drifting back to the temporal waters of this world in an attempt to find fulfillment in their life.
It will help clarify some of the apparent conflicts in Scripture if we can begin to understand how the salvation of the Lord is not completed in a moment of time.
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