"THE WORD MADE FLESH
AND CHRIST FORMED IN YOU"

MF Blume
MARCH 28, 1999 pm

John 1:14  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Gala 4:19  My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,



Not only are the biographies of Old Testament characters a lesson to us in our spiritual walks with the Lord, but so are the sovereign acts of God.

God commanded light to shine in Genesis.

God so much wants light to shine out of your heart's darkness rather than the physical darkness of the world in Genesis.

God wants the light to shine in you so that you know Christ, but that is not all. The only way we could truly see the WORD'S LIFE was for that word to become flesh. When the WORD was made flesh, it exploded into light. It was like the LIFE of God was now possible to be taken by Adam when it was in a fruit.

God manifested in flesh, because the WORD IS GOD, and shined forth in the invisible realms, as much as light shined forth in the midst of darkness.

Notice the same phrase used in two different books written by John, but followed by different issues..

John 1:18  No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].

1Joh 4:12-13  No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

John says that Jesus Christ declared God, when no man could see God.

1 John said we declare God in the way we love one another when no man can see God.

The Body of Christ that walked this earth was named Jesus Christ. John commented about Jesus declaring God. Now we are containers of that power. The key is to open your heart wide open.

We are to bring forth this Jesus from our lives, now, as well.

A church in a town called Galatia, began slipping away from the proper christian living God intended for us. Notice that Paul's mention of being called to preach the gospel to gentiles, mentions the thought of revealing Christ in him.
Gala 1:15-16  But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
For Paul, Christ had to be revealed in him in order for him to preach the gospel. Paul said that he was a vessel for Jesus to live in him. Paul ministered SPIRIT to them, for CHRIST was living through him. And then he said:
Gala 4:19  My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
He said Jesus was being formed in you, but you aborted the child! Abortion is an evil and wicked thing. His life is equal to the fetus' life, for the Bible says the fetus that dies is cause for the man that caused it to die to be killed. After we are christians, the little seed of the word begins growing in our hearts. After we read this, we read:
Luke 8:16-17   No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth [it] under a bed; but setteth [it] on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light. For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither [any thing] hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
God has a "secret" seed in your heart's soil. When God spoke light in Genesis He wanted that LIGHT to LIGHTEN the world. Jesus put the light in you, that the Word produces, and your flesh is now meant to be WORD, and you are meant to SPEAK FORTH LIGHT. So we left off in Galatians where Paul said Christ had to be formed in them again.
  My wife can play the piano with feeling and with Spirit. And then immediately Paul speaks about a miracle baby and a flesh baby.
Gala 4:21-23  Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise.
Look at the mothers of the boys and see something.
Gala 4:25-28  For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.  But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. For it is written, Rejoice, [thou] barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
After Paul said he did not live, but Christ lived in Him, he said he did not frustrate GRACE. He went on in chapter 5 and said to not worry about slipping into fleshly pleasures, because if they followed the Spirit they would not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
Gala 5:16  [This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Then we read in Gal 5 about FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT as opposed to WORKS OF THE FLESH.

After talking about a fake child of Abraham, Ishmael, and the child of promise (miracle child), Paul speaks of  them as the ISRAEL OF GOD.

Gala 6:16  And as many as walk according to this rule, peace [be] on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
And he ends by saying.... as was what Jesus was filled with....
Gala 6:18  Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit. Amen.
When Paul said he had to let Christ live in him, he said he did not frustrate the "grace." After the WORD is alive in all hearts who will ever open up to it, after it has shined upon all men, time will cease, this heaven and earth will be removed, and God will move on to the next phase....  He will manifest Himself through all of us as ONE BODY.. more perfectly than we can imagine in this incomplete stage.



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