Scripture Reference: Romans 8:1-17, 'Triumphant human life in the mind of the spirit'.
In living the Paschal Mystery, Jesus Christ as Messiah, the Revealed One, the Son of Man, has gone before all who believe in him, and follow him as the way, the truth and the life (John 14:5-7). Christ, the invisible, Begotten, image and likeness of God, the eternal Son of God, forever dwells within the spiritual body of Jesus Christ and all persons, saints and sinners alike. Jesus Christ knew, experienced, revealed and demonstrated the believers' positions of forgiveness, cleansing, liberation and enlightenment with the Godhead, one another and all creation in Christ, by following him, in living their lives in the mind of the spirit (Genesis 1:26-31, John 1:14-18, Romans 8:1-17).
The Holy Spirit operating through Christ the Begotten Righteousness of God in the believers life, is God's revealing, begetting and empowering presence, throughout all creation. In the mind of the spirit, the Holy Spirit counteracts, overcomes and destroys (Satan) the mind of the flesh, the lower law of sin and death, in the believers' life. The Holy Spirit reveals, guides and facilitates the life of righteousness in believers in and through witnessing paschal faith communities, in all traditions, religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups, who live lives in the mind of the spirit (Romans 8:1-2).
In the mind of the flesh, neither the law of Moses, nor God's law in any other tradition, religion, culture, ethnic, and secular group, could accomplish the believers position of triumphant human life in Christ, which Jesus Christ revealed. No legal position in the mind of the flesh, could accomplish this transition and regeneration because of the spiritual deception, blindness, deafness, sleep and death of the mind of the flesh. The Godhead continues to accomplished this triumphant human life, through the incarnation of Christ in Jesus Christ, and in all believers, who follow Jesus Christ in living the Paschal Mystery, in the mind of the spirit (Romans 8:12-17).
In the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ condemned and overcame the mind, sins and works of the flesh, while living in human flesh (Galatians 5:16-21). By following Jesus Christ as Messiah, Christ-centered, spiritually awake believers in all religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups can discern and embrace the catholicity and universality of the Gospel of Christ, as revealed in Jesus Christ, in the mind of the spirit. By following Jesus Christ in living the Paschal Mystery, in the mind of the spirit, all believers can also fulfill the letter as well as the spirit of God's law, in Christ (Matthew 5:17, Romans 8:3-4, Galatians 5:22-26).
The Holy Spirit reveals and takes control of the spiritual warfare within the believers thought-life, belief systems and relationships, within witnessing paschal faith communities. In the Godhead's own time, the Holy Spirit casts down and casts out the inappropriate dominion of the mind of the flesh. By surrendering to the Holy Spirit, in the mind of the spirit, believers realizes the victory over sin instead of the defeat of sin. In the mind of the Spirit, within witnessing paschal faith communities, believers pass over into the freedom and glorious human life of God's love, grace and truth in Christ (Romans 8:5-7).
Believers in all the world's traditions, religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups can, in the mind of the spirit, following Jesus Christ, in living the Paschal Mystery. Through repentance, faith, humility and agape love, we can all experience forgiveness of sins (Matthew 6:12). In the mind of the spirit, we will discern and regain our divine inheritance of eternal and abundant life in Christ (John 3:16-17). Kingdom living will be established here on earth, as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:9-10). Reconciliation with God, mankind, and all creation in Christ, is God's sure reward for those who follow Jesus Christ, in living the Paschal Mystery, in the mind of the spirit.
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