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LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 20
ROMANS 1:16
All the things that God did instantaneously the moment we believed. Remember Hebrews Chapter 11 says:
Now let's come to the word "Translated." Let's turn to Colossians Chapter 1. Here we find Paul praying on behalf of the Colossi believers:
Colossians 1:12,13
"Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet (or prepared us) to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who (speaking of God the Father) hath (past tense)delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son;"
The King was in their midst, and where The King is the Kingdom was sure to come. But Israel rejected The King and the Kingdom, and they crucified Him. We will be ruling and reigning with Christ over that Kingdom of which we are now members by virtue of our salvation experience. Looking at verse 13 again:
"Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,..."
To reinforce that, let's go for a moment to the Book of Philippians.
Philippians 3:20
I was reminded again recently that I hadn't taught the Rapture since Book 11. We know that's the next event on God's calendar. Romans 8:14,15
"For as many are led by the Spirit of God, they are (already) the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."
The word `adoption' at the time of Paul, meant that they would take a child who had been tutored by tutors under school masters, and at an appointed age they would make him a full heir with the father. We have been placed as the full child, or joint heir. What a responsibility! That's a responsibility just like that kid. Remember, the phrase we are studying has the word `glorified.' I got sided tracked with the word `adoption.'
Romans 8:16,17
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are (already) the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together."
The moment we became a child of God, the moment we believed, then God declared us a full son of the Father. A joint-heir with Christ. Ephesians 1:19-23
The Body of Christ of which you and I are members is the complement of Christ. Now what's the complement? Adam and Eve haven't sinned yet. Genesis 2:16-20
"And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, `Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.' And the LORD God said, `It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an help meet for him.' And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Complement! Eve. Here comes all these pairs of beasts, and Adam named them. This, too, is wonders of wonders, miracles of miracles that even the Lord Jesus the crowning Creator God of the universe, has such a love for His Blood-bought Church, His Body, that the Scripture says He doesn't even consider Himself complete until He has us in His presence. Ephesians 1:22,23
"And (God) hath put all things under his (Christ's) feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness (the complement) of him that filleth all in all."
By faith! The Book says it. I Corinthians 12:12
"For as the body (the human body) is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ."
I Corinthians 12:13
"For by one Spirit (The Holy Spirit) are we all (every believer) baptized into one body (that Church universal, that Body that includes the believers from whatever corner of the globe they may be), whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free: and have been all made to drink into one Spirit."
That by the invisible act of the Holy Spirit, He placed every believer the moment they believed, the moment they're saved, into this Body of Christ, which will one day be His Bride. We can't determine who's saved and who's lost. That's an area that only God can look into. But in the Body of Christ there are no unbelievers. No unsaved person is ever baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ. God has said it, we believe it, and we rest on it.
Let's stay in I Corinthians and turn to Chapter 3. I Corinthians 3:16
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"

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