YOUR LIFE IS HID: LESSON THREE
Col.3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things, which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory…ye are dead.
How long will it take these words to sink into the very fabric of our consciousness? The word dead is taken from the Hebrew NT:599 apothnesko (ap-oth-nace'-ko); from NT:575 and NT:2348; to die off (literally or figuratively): KJV - be dead, death, die, lie a-dying, be slain. The first part is Apo, denotes a specific time and place. The second part, Thano denotes literal time of death as when the coroner writes down the time of death. There is a time in our life when we experience this death for without it we cannot be raised with Christ. You will know when you have experience this death for your affections, your mind will seek out Christ. Zeteo is the Greek word for: seek. It means to worship God. When we worship God we are searching for something hidden for which we have urgent need and desire above all things.
Setting our affections is the process of exercising our mind on things above where our life actually resides. The Holy Spirit provides a personal raising of our life and the Holy Spirit causes our rising in the corporate body of Christ. We partake and embrace the first experience in order to participate as a member of the His Body. In each case a spiritual application and the work is performed by the Holy Spirit. This is what the word risen means, NT:4891 sunegeiro (soon-eg-i'-ro); from NT:4862 and NT:1453; to rouse (from death) in company with, i.e. (figuratively) to revivify (spiritually) in resemblance to: KJV - raise up together, rise with him.
1Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 1Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. . (See Lessons on Phil.4 Lesson on High Praises on how to exercise you mind)
Once we realize we are dead but alive onto God we will cease from our own works and enter into God’s rest for there remains for some to enter into this rest. Once we enter into his rest we realize that our own abilities have no part in the operation of the Holy Spirit. We make a conscious effort to rid ourselves of those things which are of the world. The word seek (zetoe) also means to plot against life. Plotting against life is the process, which recognizes the work of the Holy Spirit is of God and not of us. We cry out from within our innermost being and release the living water that is contained in us by the Holy Ghost. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) John 7:38
Oh Praise God, Christ is now glorified by God and he is glorified in us; thus what he spoke of the Spirit in now in us who are the members of his body. 1Cor.12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many.
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