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[ Created: 2021-11-27 16:35:48  Updated: 2026-05-28 08:03:03 Owner: rl ]
Title: That which motivates an effort    
  
  
  
  

    

  
  
  
  


God created man for relationship.   That is our purpose in existence.   
    God and Adam were in an active relationship
    Sin separated God and Adam
    Relationship became impossible
    Man created religion to substitute for relationship with God
    Jesus is God in flesh - the Spirit Soul And Body of God
    Jesus came to reconcile us to Himself
    Sin was covered by the blood of Jesus
    Relationship with God was possible by faith in Christ Jesus
    Relationship of intimacy came by being baptized with Holy Spirit Of Christ Jesus

God's purpose for man is fulfilled when a believer absorbs His Word and is absorbed by His Holy Spirit.   
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
To abide in Jesus is:
    to be Baptized In The Name Of Jesus Christ
    to be filled with His Holy Spirit.     
    to have the Mind Of Christ.     

For His Words to abide in you:
    you must know the Word
    you must believe the Word
    you must receive the Word as your law

We must worship in Spirit And Truth.     

We must live in Spirit And Truth.     

To 'ask what you will' implies that you ask in Spirit And Truth.     

'It shall be done' is a guarantee for those who come into Spirit And Truth.     

When you are in the Holy Spirit, in the Word and have the Mind Of Christ, you know that He has provided all things for life and godliness, so that when you ask, you receive

Jesus is speaking, not on behalf of God, but as God, It is in our acceptance of Christ Jesus that we enter into the place where the knowledge of God is possible.   This is what Jesus meant when He said that He, Jesus, is the TRUTH.   
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.     To him be glory both now and for ever.     Amen.
What is the source of knowledge of Jesus (who is the Truth)?     
1) the Word Of The Lord which is Truth
2) the Holy Spirit who is the Spirit Of Truth.     

When we spend time meditating on the Word Of The Lord the Holy Spirit reveals more Truth to us which enables us to appropriate more of His Grace Through Faith.     

Many believers in Christ have not grown to the knowledge that Jesus is Mighty God - the image of His Holy Spirit who is the eternal, ominipresent, omniscient, omnipotent being we call `God`.     

Until that revelation knowledge is in us, there is still a separation between us and `God`.     Realizing that the Holy Spirit in us is `God` in us is critical to the exercising of the Faith Of Christ.     

By the Faith Of Christ we are able to do His works.     The fact that we do not see His works being manifested in and through believers is evidence of this fundamental lack of knowledge of Christ Jesus.     

Jesus is Lord.     

You can't truly know Jesus, the Truth, without knowing His Word Of Truth and you can't know the Word Of Truth without the Spirit Of Truth.     This is the Tri Fold Truth.

The Knowledge Of The Truth of Christ Jesus is encountered in Spirit And Truth.   
This is the Tri Fold Truth.