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Question #2: Jesus opened up a
relationship with God that was not experienced since before the
fall of Adam, what then did the relationship between lets say
David and God look like? There was a friendship and faith but
there was no spiritual life and the indwelling of the spirit, so
how did David’s relationship with God differ from what we have
after Jesus gave us life?
This is a very
good question and everyone needs to come to some conclusion
about it. It is also difficult to explain because it involves
spiritual things and a spiritual relationship requires our
imagination. Jesus did establish a new family relationship for
man with god, but this is new and different from the created
family. David had spiritual life but not regeneration as
provided by Jesus, in new life. Adam and Eve had divine life
from the creation giving them the same nature as God but they
began life as adults with programmed instincts for life in the
garden, they had no memory of Life when created. A Christian
is regenerated, retraining the memory of life in degeneration,
which began when procreated. They could not be regenerated as
created because degeneration must precede regeneration. The
corrupt seed of Adam is the source of degeneration and
senescence in all the wombs of mankind. This is why the
incorruptible seed in Mary’s womb did not result in corruption
for the procreated offspring. For a better understanding of
procreated life see “The Seed of the Woman” by Arthur Custance,
or go to the “Foundational Tab” on this web site and listen to
the message, “Saved from Syn and Sin”. When David said that he
was conceived in sin he did not mean that his parents were
sinning when he was conceived, rather that he was born in
degeneration under The Law of Sin and Death. This
makes him a candidate for regeneration under The Law of the
Spirit of Life in Christ. There is a difference in David
and the Christian. David lived his flesh life in covenant with
his God as monarch in the Kingdom of God. Christians are Sons
of God in a spiritual covenant. David was in the kingdom of God
in his generation. Now the Kingdom of God is in the sons of God
in their regeneration.
Question #3: If Jesus was rewarded with glory was it because of
His suffering? His faith? His obedience? What were Jesus\'
rewards? Was He rewarded FOR anything besides His faith? -- His
suffering for example?
If by Glory you
mean his resurrection then it was because of his death. He was
the first fruits of the Regeneration. He was the first one to
benefit from his death, which opened the gates of hell for naked
spirits (spirits without a body) in paradise. Glory is a
very big word with many meanings. Glory is in the eye of the
beholder. Jesus was glorified in the eyes of his father God by
his faithful obedience, which is what put him on the cross where
he died.
Jesus is the first
to receive a glorified body. I don’t know if we should call
this a reward or not. Many Old Testament saints with faith were
simply rewarded with a good report. They died and their spirits
went to Abraham’s bosom in sheol (or hell), where Jesus would
come at his death to glorify them with himself in regeneration.
We cannot separate Jesus suffering from his faith because faith
is why he suffered. Jesus is a prophet sent by God to his
people and will be killed like the prophets before him. His
disciples would likewise be sent to these same people and be
killed. Jesus suffered in his spirit for 3 years of ministry to
his people. He did suffer in the flesh on the cross as anyone
would in crucifixion, but the ransom is only paid in death. He
was born to die and until he dies he has not finished his
commission.
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