Mistaken Identity: Beauty or the Beast
Hamartiology, the Doctrine of Sin, is taken
from hamartia, which means, "to miss the
mark." One of the Greek words for "mark" is
charagma, transliterated to the English,
"character." Hence, to sin is to fall short of the
character of Christ! Sin is a mistaken identity.
Do we know who we are in Christ as the Seed
of Abraham and the Seed of David (Matt. 1:1
with 1 Jn. 4:17)? Furthermore, the Bible
declares that Christ "is the image of God" (2
Cor. 4:4). In view of that, the spirit of
antichrist is any other image! Said another
way, there are but two kinds of men on the
planet: Christ and Adam, the "new man" and
the "old man"-beauty and the beast!
Paul's apostolic anticipation was for Christ to
be fully formed in a people (Gal. 4:19). "Christ
in you" (a plural pronoun) reveals a corporate
Man with a corporate anointing, a vast
company of sons, male and female (Col. 1:27
with Rom. 8:19).
Romans 11:29, KJV For the gifts and (the)
calling of God are without repentance
(compare Eph. 4:4).
from hamartia, which means, "to miss the
mark." One of the Greek words for "mark" is
charagma, transliterated to the English,
"character." Hence, to sin is to fall short of the
character of Christ! Sin is a mistaken identity.
Do we know who we are in Christ as the Seed
of Abraham and the Seed of David (Matt. 1:1
with 1 Jn. 4:17)? Furthermore, the Bible
declares that Christ "is the image of God" (2
Cor. 4:4). In view of that, the spirit of
antichrist is any other image! Said another
way, there are but two kinds of men on the
planet: Christ and Adam, the "new man" and
the "old man"-beauty and the beast!
Paul's apostolic anticipation was for Christ to
be fully formed in a people (Gal. 4:19). "Christ
in you" (a plural pronoun) reveals a corporate
Man with a corporate anointing, a vast
company of sons, male and female (Col. 1:27
with Rom. 8:19).
Romans 11:29, KJV For the gifts and (the)
calling of God are without repentance
(compare Eph. 4:4).
There is but one calling-the calling (the
definite article is used here). The "high
(upward) calling" of Philippians 3:14, the
"heavenly calling" of Hebrews 3:1, is that each
believer has been summoned to be like Jesus,
to be conformed to His image and likeness!
There is no nobler aspiration in this life or the
life to come. The individual goal and
destination, the finish line of this race of faith,
is for each of us to be like Christ! Having been
called into His presence to be transformed by
His grace, we are sent from thence to our
particular assignments. But our singular
calling and our "blessed hope" is to become
like Him (Tit. 2:13 with 1 Jn. 3:1-3).
John 17:21, KJV That they all may be one; as
Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that
they also may be one in Us….
Ephesians 4:13, KJV Till we all come in the
unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the
Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Our corporate goal, destination, and finish line
is "the unity of the faith" for which Jesus
prayed-one corporate Man! So the third
dimension of Moses' Tabernacle, the Most
Holy Place, is marked by maturity: the full
stature of love and unity (Psa. 133).
Isaiah 66:1-2, KJV Thus saith the LORD, The
heaven is My throne, and the earth is My
footstool: where is the house that ye build
unto Me? and where is the place of My rest? 2
For all those things hath Mine hand made, and
all those things have been, saith the LORD:
but to this man will I look, even to him that is
poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at
My word.
The "House" of the Lord, the Body of Christ, a
people in whom God can stretch out and find
a resting place, is the bigger picture. Like
Joseph of Arimathaea who "begged (craved,
desired) the body of Jesus" (Matt. 27:58; Lk.
23:52), we long to see a contrite Corporate
Man in the earth who fears (reverences) the
Lord!
For each of us to be like Jesus, and for an
anointed people to become one in Him-this is
the prize, the purpose for our running!
definite article is used here). The "high
(upward) calling" of Philippians 3:14, the
"heavenly calling" of Hebrews 3:1, is that each
believer has been summoned to be like Jesus,
to be conformed to His image and likeness!
There is no nobler aspiration in this life or the
life to come. The individual goal and
destination, the finish line of this race of faith,
is for each of us to be like Christ! Having been
called into His presence to be transformed by
His grace, we are sent from thence to our
particular assignments. But our singular
calling and our "blessed hope" is to become
like Him (Tit. 2:13 with 1 Jn. 3:1-3).
John 17:21, KJV That they all may be one; as
Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that
they also may be one in Us….
Ephesians 4:13, KJV Till we all come in the
unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the
Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Our corporate goal, destination, and finish line
is "the unity of the faith" for which Jesus
prayed-one corporate Man! So the third
dimension of Moses' Tabernacle, the Most
Holy Place, is marked by maturity: the full
stature of love and unity (Psa. 133).
Isaiah 66:1-2, KJV Thus saith the LORD, The
heaven is My throne, and the earth is My
footstool: where is the house that ye build
unto Me? and where is the place of My rest? 2
For all those things hath Mine hand made, and
all those things have been, saith the LORD:
but to this man will I look, even to him that is
poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at
My word.
The "House" of the Lord, the Body of Christ, a
people in whom God can stretch out and find
a resting place, is the bigger picture. Like
Joseph of Arimathaea who "begged (craved,
desired) the body of Jesus" (Matt. 27:58; Lk.
23:52), we long to see a contrite Corporate
Man in the earth who fears (reverences) the
Lord!
For each of us to be like Jesus, and for an
anointed people to become one in Him-this is
the prize, the purpose for our running!
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