What is the difference between Christ and the other mankind? There exists a great similarity, but also a great difference here and we must know where that similarity begins and where it ends, and what that great difference actually is.
Christ is similar to man in that He is constituted on the same principles. He is a Man, a human being where the composition of His humanity is the same as in any other man. He had to become a man in order to be able to save man! He is spirit, soul and body as we are. His body is as our body and in its form or appearance there is no difference. He has a soul as we have a soul, it is able to feel, love, hate, ponder, make choices and decisions. His soul was always sinless even though it was able to sin just as Adam’s soul was before his fall. Our soul is sinful since our birthday. He has a spirit just as we have a spirit, which has conscience (perception), intuition (discernment) and communication. In these things He is very similar to us, we can also say, that He is a “similar vessel” as any other man. But here it is where the similarity ends and an enormous difference begins. What is that enormous difference?
That enormous difference is in the inner man. Therefore, it is not in the vessel as such, but WHAT IS IN THE VESSEL, WHAT GOVERNS, WHAT MOVES THE VESSEL, BY WHAT THAT VESSEL LIVES. Our human vessel is moved and governed and it lives the life, which we also call “FLESH”. It is a principle, power, something nonmaterial in us, which is very strong, and in the fallen creation it is evil, which is the basis of sinfulness, that is, the flesh. In Christ’s vessel this never existed! Hence, we have similar vessels with Christ, but the life, power by which that Christ’s vessel lives is absolutely different because it belongs to a totally different creation. Between Christ and us there is an unbridgeable abyss as touching this dominant power, this governing nature of life through which our similar vessels live, by which they are governed. Our vessel is called “old creation” and it is ruled by our “old man”. Christ’s vessel was also an “old creation”, it became a “New Creation” only after His Resurrection. However, His old as well as New vessel were always governed, ruled by His “New Man”. This New Man represents New Humanity, which is totally different from our own, OLD humanity; it has a different life, different qualities, different virtues, different moral values and with our own OLD humanity it has nothing in common.
One of the greatest problems of believers is to see, realize and thus understand that, firstly, the Holy Spirit is in a continuous opposition to Satan. The Spirit is continuously bringing to the foreground the Person of Jesus Christ in order to occupy our attention with His Personality thereby bringing to us the future picture of us ourselves so we could see ourselves in the Light of God which Light Satan always tries to cover. Secondly, He is bringing to us the Light in order to see, realize and thus to understand that enormous difference between what we are in ourselves, what is Christ in Himself, and also, what we are in Him, what change do we need to bridge that abyss. And thirdly, that believers would begin to see, believe and understand in their spirit even that almost unimaginable fact that, according to the Holy Word of God: MAN AND GOD ARE MADE ONE IN CHRIST! (Jn. 17:21) THIS IS THE GREATEST HEAVENLY FACT THAT MAY EVER EXIST!
That NEW HUMANITY is in Christ and it shall be in us as God’s Humanity sitting on the Throne of God and serving God in Christ’s Name and in His Will govern that New Heaven and New Earth, that New Universe, which will be created by God, because the old Heaven and old Earth will pass away and shall not be found (Rev. 21:1). This should be our VISION about our true Salvation and true future, which is very hard to imagine in our limited head. The Lord can put THIS LIGHT only to our conscience and from there it can penetrate into our heart. That’s why the believers with closed hearts do not seek truth, nor do they value it. These three above mentioned facts as well as that Vision of our future, they shall never see in their life, therefore, they shall not believe or realize them either and their true future and destiny will be very questionable. The closed heart leads to destruction! Therefore, it is absolutely desirable and vitally important to keep our heart open to the Lord and to His Light and Life. This alone will determine our future and our destiny.
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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