THE ROLES AND TASKS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
THE ROLES AND TASKS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
To be a member of the Bride of the Lamb (Revelation 21:9)
To be part of the Temple of God (Ephesians 2:22)
To be a member of the Body of Christ (I Corinthians 12:12)
To be a son of God (Revelation 21:7)
To be the light of the world (Matthew 5:14)
To be a part of the vehicle for the end-time revival (Isaiah 60:1,2)
To be a source of eternal life and healing for the nations (I Corinthians 15:45)
To be a member of the royal priesthood (I Peter 2:9)
To be a witness of God (Isaiah 43:10)
To be salt (Matthew 5:13)
To be an overcomer of the Accuser (Revelation 12:11)
To be a governor of the nations (Revelation 2:26,27)
To be a judge of people and angels (I Corinthians 6:2)
To be a soldier in the army of the Lord (Joel 2:11)
To be a wall of defense around the Glory of God (Revelation 21:14)
To be the revelation of God in Christ (Revelation 3:12)
A CHANGE OF GOAL </p> Here is the true and eternal goal of salvation:
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20—NIV)
The reason the other apostles could not condemn Paul in the matter of the statutes of the Law of Moses was that Paul was "dead," crucified with Christ. The Law has no authority over a deceased individual.
Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? (Romans 7:1—NIV)
By counting himself "dead," Paul was free to follow the Lord without the distractions of the Law.
. . . and calleth those things which be not as though they were. (Romans 4:17)
When we come up out of the water of baptism we count that we are dead and now are free to walk in the resurrection life of the Lord Jesus. Neither the Ten Commandments nor any other aspect of the Law of Moses has authority over us, except in their greatly expanded form presented by the writers of the New Testament.
The Sabbath commandment, for example, is fulfilled as we enter the "rest of God," in which we live, move and have our being in obedience to the living Jesus.
Although it is not always presented as such, the rest of God is the third great work of redemption, following the blood atonement and the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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