02.07. CHAPTER 07: OUR FULFILLMENT POTENTIAL
CHAPTER 7: OUR FULFILLMENT POTENTIAL The Spirit of MASHIAH YESHUA (see Php 1:19 c) is the Spirit of Prophecy. The primary intent of prophecy is fulfillment – personally, corporately and in cosmic proportions. In this reality of prophecy and its intent of actual fulfillment, the Scriptures declare that the fullness of JESUS CHRIST is designed to fill all-in-all (see Ephesians 1:23).
Colossians 1:17; Colossians 1:19-20 declares the following: And HE (JESUS CHRIST) is before all things, and in HIM all things hold together. … For it was the FATHER’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in HIM (JESUS CHRIST), and through HIM to reconcile all things to HIMSELF, having made peace through the Blood of HIS Cross; through HIM, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
Given the prophetic significance of the fullness of JESUS CHRIST – communicated to us in HIS Spirit and Life – we can understand why the Spirit of MASHIAH YESHUA is the Spirit of Prophecy. The Spirit of MASHIAH YESHUA (CHRIST JESUS), is the spiritual blueprint for our prophetic status and potential in eternity - as spiritual beings prophetically described as priests, kings and prophets (see Revelation 1:6, KJV; 1 Peter 4:11) – the functional sons of the living GOD (see Romans 8:19; Romans 8:29-30).
It is the Spirit and Life of YESHUA MASHIAH that give credence to the awesome potentials of the prophetic Word designed to unveil us as Morning Stars (see 2 Peter 1:19; Jeremiah 1:11-12). We become Morning Stars in the actuality of the Word of GOD developed into our state of being – by GOD (see Ephesians 2:10). We are called Morning Stars in the image and fullness of HIM WHO is prophetically described as the Bright Morning Star (see Revelation 22:16; John 1:16-17, NASB+KJV+NKJV).
We are spiritual beings being brought into true life through the actual communication of the Word of GOD into us in and through the Spirit and Life of YESHUA MASHIAH.
We are spiritual beings being brought to life in the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST. And, it is in the reality of new life that we have a prophetic potential we have to choose to enter into. The willingness to make right choices is the necessary response to GOD that Biblical Spirituality demands.
It is GOD WHO will develop the outcomes of our choices in HIS Word and through HIS Word. Our choices are conduits through which the power of GOD will manifest the Word that will create and fashion outcomes, in line with GOD’s will and purpose for our individual lives (see Ephesians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17). The Testimony of JESUS – the Word expressed in the Spirit and Life of JESUS CHRIST - expounds and gives actual expression to the spiritual contents of the Word Of GOD that is to be fashioned into us. We are being brought into new life – defined in a new state of inner being - in and through the actual contents of the Spirit and Life of YESHUA! This is the reality in which GOD actually performs HIS Word into us and, ultimately through us (see Jeremiah 1:11-12; Jeremiah 31:31-34; 2 Corinthians 3:3; 2 Corinthians 3:6, NKJV) in order to achieve HIS specific purposes with us.
[For example: The creation of a heart of flesh – a pure heart that is an actual construct of CHRIST’s Fullness in us, is one of the essential realities in which GOD performs HIS Word in our inner man (see Exodus 31:18; Exodus 32:15-16; 2 Corinthians 3:3, NKJV; Jeremiah 15:16; John 6:51).
Similarly the consequent circumcision of our heart of flesh, so as to remove the body of our fallen flesh - that expresses all of our (fallen) fleshly weaknesses - is also an example of GOD performing HIS Word (see Ezekiel 36:26-27; 2 Corinthians 3:3; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Romans 2:29; Colossians 2:11; Php 3:3) in us to achieve HIS purposes through salvation.
HE is actually saving us by creating us anew in our inward parts; creating us in consonance with our free will response to HIM and HIS Word. In our response to HIM and HIS Word we are called to work out our salvation with fear and trembling (see Php 2:12) knowing that HE is at work in us to will and to work into us all that is pleasing to HIM (see Php 2:13). Understand clearly that it is GOD WHO saves us; but HE does this in consonance with our willingness to pursue our salvation by choosing to make the right responses to HIM through HIS Word!]
Through the exposition of the Word into our inward parts (see Exodus 31:18; Exodus 32:15-16; 2 Corinthians 3:3) GOD is creating us through the contents of the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST. GOD is in this process actually performing HIS Word – purposefully - into us! GOD is establishing (and developing) a GOD-ordained spirituality into our inward parts. In this new creation we are called epistles of CHRIST and ministers of the New Covenant (see 2 Corinthians 3:3; 2 Corinthians 3:6, NKJV). Epistles give particular and specific spiritual definition to our functional state of being in GOD. And, the actuality of us each becoming actual ministers of the New Covenant gives functional expression to all that is being defined and described into our inward state of being. The end result is a spiritual being in the image and fullness of MASHIAH YESHUA (see John 1:16-17, KJV+NKJV+NASB; Romans 8:29-30; Romans 8:28) who is fully functional in JESUS Name (see Revelation 19:13 b; John 14:12-14; John 15:7-8; John 15:16; John 16:23-26) by HIS Witness actually made alive in the inward parts (see 1 John 5:10 a; Revelation 3:14 b)!
While our outer man is decaying, our inward man is being created and revitalized by renewal and regeneration (see Titus 3:5; 2 Corinthians 4:16-18; Ephesians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17) in the actual communication of the contents of the Word of GOD – into us - through the ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT. The contents of the Word of GOD are expressed in the Spirit and Life of the LORD JESUS CHRIST – the WORD of GOD (see Revelation 19:13 c; John 1:1-4). The ingredients of JESUS CHRIST’s Spirit and Life give pure and perfect expression to the contents of the Word of GOD – as Truth - so that the Word of GOD will be performed in us and into us in GOD’s perfect will.
Php 4:13 (KJV) specifies that we can do all things through CHRIST WHO strengthens us. We are strengthened - into an actual newness of life and being - as the contents of the Spirit of CHRIST (which is the Spirit of Prophecy) is perfected and completed into our spirit man.
And, all this is accomplished through the ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT (see John 16:14; John 16:13-15) to our inward parts of spirit, soul and heart. In this process, we become the workmanship of GOD created in CHRIST JESUS (see Ephesians 2:10). In this process, we are beginning to actualize the prophetic (or, fulfillment) potentials ordained in our lives from the foundations of the world (see Psalms 139:14-18; 2 Peter 1:19; Ephesians 2:10) in actual measures of the fullness of CHRIST JESUS.
[Please note that this process of being perfected and completed in the life-giving Spirit of MASHIAH – so that we actualize a newness of life and being – also involves our soul being renewed and regenerated and, being perfected and completed in the Nature and Character of JESUS CHRIST. This comes about through the Nature and Character contents of the Spirit of CHRIST being perfected and completed into our soul – which comprises our mind (see Ephesians 4:23-24), our will (see Php 2:13) and, our emotions (see Galatians 5:22-23). The Cross is a testament to the Nature and Character of JESUS CHRIST being the fundamental ingredient to HIS Spirit being expressed as the Spirit of Holiness – where holiness means being actually set apart unto GOD and HIS purposes in purity (see Romans 1:3-4). The Nature and Character of JESUS CHRIST will cause us to have a passion to be holy unto GOD.] The actualization of our prophetic potentials is a creative strengthening and formation of our inward parts that enables us to “do all things” – in and by and through GOD. The actualization of GOD’s Righteousness - into a new spirit man and, consequently into a renewed and regenerated soul man, that together result in an increasingly new state of being – crystallized in the contents of a clean heart (see Psalms 51:10) and a pure heart (see Matthew 5:8; Psalms 24:3-4; Psalms 15:1-2) - is the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets (see Matthew 5:17-18; Romans 3:21-23, KJV)! In the manifestation of GOD’s Righteousness into our functional state of being in fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets - GOD saves us. The fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets is the fundamental basis of Biblical Spirituality breaking the yokes of the Mystery of Lawlessness that engulfs the human race (see 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12; Matthew 7:21-23) in death and self-destruction!
We are meant to actualize the prophetic potential of doing all things in word and deed in the Name of the LORD JESUS (see Colossians 3:17) - through the ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT (see John 16:14; John 16:13-15). In being able to do all things in the Name of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, the Mystery of the FATHER’s Will is brought into increasing functional fulfillment in us and through us (see Ephesians 1:9-10; Ephesians 1:3-14). The prophetic potential of doing all things in the Name of the LORD JESUS (see Colossians 3:17) arises out of the HOLY SPIRIT’s configuration of our spirit man in the FATHER’s Will! The HOLY SPIRIT configures our spirit man in and by and through the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST (see John 16:14)! Our spirit man is configured to function in the Spirit and Life of MASHIAH YESHUA under the leading and inspiration of the HOLY SPIRIT. Our spirit actualizing the growing potentials of the contents of the Spirit of CHRIST is the essential and exclusive ingredient to the fulfillment of the Prophets.
We can now understand why all things abiding and eternal are possible – only - through CHRIST WHO strengthens us! With our spirit configured in the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST we become increasingly functional through the Spirit of CHRIST. But the status of our spirit being configured in the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST is only part of the functional status of our inward being. We have a soul that also needs to be configured in CHRIST JESUS. How does this come about?