SNT 0732 - Christ Formed in You
Christ is formed in us when we love others as Christ loved us and gave; when we love and give, our lives and the lives of others are blessed. [November 24,1974] SNT – 732 Eph 5:1, 2; (Joh 3:16); Act 16:16-18 Act 16:19-34; Gal 4:19; (Gen 3:16); Phi 2:13; 2Pe 3:18 2Pe 3:18; (Jam 3:8); 1Co 2:9, 10; Eph 3:8; Col 1:9, 10; (Phi 4:13) Phi 4:11; Gal 2:20 ---------------------- “Christ Formed in You” Victor Paul Wierwille November 24, 1974 – Sunday Night Teaching 732 Transcript – New Knoxville, Ohio Tonight I’ve been thinking about how Christ is formed within us, and that’s what I want to open up with you a little bit tonight, and share with you. In Ephesians Chapter 5...you see... every earthly father who is, you know a real Christian father and loves his children. He desires within the inner most part of his being, as an earthly father, to reproduce himself in his children. The heart of Christianity, my people, is the Father God, through Jesus Christ, building Himself in us through His revealed Word, so that our moment-by-moment living is like and is with the Master. In Ephesians 5 it says: Ephesians 5:1-2: Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. God so loved, according to John – remember? – 3:16? God so loved that He what? Gave. All love is giving. God, the Creator of all heaven and earth, so loved that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have what? Everlasting life. The reason it’s everlasting life is because it has a starting point for you. The reason it’s eternal life is because it has no starting point for God. And therefore that which you receive from God is eternal, but for you it’s everlasting. That is the difference in the usage of the two words “everlasting” and “eternal.” With God, that which you receive is eternal. But for you, it’s everlasting because it had a
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book of Galatians, chapter 4, look at verse 19. Galatians 4:19: My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be [what?] formed in you, This was the walk of the Apostle Paul. See, they were born again of God’s spirit. They were already “children,” but they were little kids spiritually. You can be 90 years old and just be a 4 www.eternallyblessed.org “Preserve and Make Available” little child spiritually, just sort of like a pledge or a fledgling. And the Word says, “My little children of whom I travail in birth.” Labor, see. It’s like in Genesis, you know, it says something about “in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.” That’s a bunch of baloney. The Word says “in labor.” But your see being Occidental and everybody having to suffer like crazy having kids, so we’ve got to get the word “sorrow” in there. No, it is “labor.” Boy, there’s a tremendous class that Mrs. D