PERFECT BUT LONGING IMMORTALITY!

..............complete, total perfection, spirit, soul and body.

 

NOT THAT I HAVE ALREADY ATTAINED OR AM ALREADY PERFECTED BUT I PRESS ON THAT I MAY LAY HOLD OF THAT  FOR WHICH CHRIST JESUS HAS ALSO LAID HOLD OF ME..................PHILIPPIANS 3:12.
  • What was St Paul saying here?

    Let's take it one step at a time with sweet Jesus shall we and we will all as we go along see the truth and be set free from the lies of the evil one, satan the devil, the god of bar codes and the bondage of sin.

    First of all Paul the apostle says........not that I have already attained, attained what?.........Paul was talking about the goal, his goal, which was to be immortal, with Father, Jesus and Holy Ghost in heaven in his, Jesus immediate presence. He did not imply that he was a sinner-saint, living in (known) sin.

    St Paul said that he needed to know the cross, Jesus sufferings, holy ghosts keeping power and the holy bibles accepted standard for all to be resurrected unto eternal life which is..............death to self...up to the light/knowledge we have .........Romans 6:1-23.


  • Let's read it together:

    THAT I MAY KNOW HIM AND THE POWER OF HIS RESSURECTION AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERINGS.........BEING CONFORMED TO HIS DEATH............IF BY ANY MEANS...........I MAY ATTAIN....
    TO THE RESSURECTION FROM THE DEAD....................PHILIPPIANS 3:10, 11.

    Well wasn't that just a mouthfull and a little more?.......what a man was brother Paul the apostle, a real example of a spiritual man not a religious one or a money lover or a plagiar but a real example of an originator, don't you reckon?......................... by no means a duplicator.

    BUT LET PATIENCE HAVE ITS PERFECT WORK THAT YOU MAY BE PERFECT AND COMPLETE LACKING NOTHING. THEREFORE YOU SHALL BE PERFECT AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT..................... JAMES 1:4, MATTHEW 5:48.

    EPAPHRAS WHO IS ONE OF YOU, A SERVANT OF CHRIST GREETS YOU, ALWAYS LABOURING FERVENT FOR YOU IN PRAYERS THAT YOU MAY STAND..........PERFECT AND COMPLETE IN ALL THE WILL OF GOD...............COLOSSIANS 4:12.

  • So we see that St Paul was pressing on toward his goal, not a new car, house, church, holiday or pot of gold but immortality, total perfection yet he was right with God at this time in his life that is without (known) sin in his life, a doer of the words of jesus, a holy man and bold as the righteous can be............a perfect man in God's eyes.................Genesis 6:9.
PAUL'S GOAL / VISION WAS THE SAME AS JOBS.
JOB 19:27-29.
  • PERFECT SUBMISSION PERFECT DELIGHT
    VISIONS OF RAPTURE NOW BURST ON MY SIGHT.

    ANGELS DESCENDING BRING FROM ABOVE
    ECHOES OF MERCY, WHISPERS OF LOVE.

  • PERFECT SUBMISSION ALL IS AT REST
    I IN MY SAVIOUR AM HAPPY AND BLEST
    WATCHING AND WAITING, LOOKING ABOVE
    FILLED WITH HIS GOODNESS AND LOST
    IN HIS LOVE.................
  • THIS IS MY STORY, THIS IS MY SONG
    PRAISING MY SAVIOUR, ALL THE DAY LONG!
.....(taken from the hymn / blessed assurance.......written by F.J.Crosby.)
Be ye perfect as I am perfect says Yahweh
Pastor Paul Sheehan
Revelation 22:11.
April, 2003

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