One Spirit With Christ

Just a short message today is all I have time for, but this is something seriously integral to think on. I Corinthians 6:17 tells us; “But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” Now, the reason for this being true is because the only way anyone can be joined to the Lord is by receiving, or being baptized with his Spirit. Galatians 3:27 tells us the same thing as our text scripture in barely different words: “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” Again, it is the Spirit baptism alone that joins us to the Lord, and whereby we 'put on Christ;' for we are told in II Corinthians 3:17; “Now the Lord IS that Spirit.” So that settles how we are joined to the Lord, and how we become 'one spirit' with him. Now let’s think about this one evident, glaring reality that is inseperable from the experience of being joined to the Lord. When our spirit meshes with his Spirit, something has to yield to something else. We seek and believe on the Lord for grace because we were born in sin, and want to be freed from that bondage. Jesus is holy, and is the only one who can provide that grace that we so desperately need. Jesus said that everyone who believes on him will receive his Spirit (Jn. 7:37-39). So when we believe fully on him, and receive his holy Spirit thereby, this is where we become 'one spirit' with him; even as we have established here from the scriptures. So the point here is this: When we become one spirit with Jesus, either we become holy like he is, or he has to become a sinner like we have been. Obviously Jesus does not become a sinner, so it is just as evident that we are made holy like he is. Otherwise we are not truly 'one spirit' with him, and the scripture is a lie. Since the scripture is not a lie, where does that leave the widely accepted Christian tradition of “sinners saved by grace?”

Without question much of the modern Christian religion upholds the 'belief' that “nobody can actually stop sinning altogether.” To uphold that thinking, there is the bold claim that “he paid the price.” I fully concur that Jesus paid the price for every sin ever committed by man, but the price he paid was enough to get us out of sin literally, not just figuratively like the old testament (Heb. 9:13,14). In order to become a partaker of the true sanctification that he paid the price for, we must believe unto being baptized by him with his holy Spirit, with the accompanying sign of speaking with other tongues. Nonetheless, modern Christianity would have us believe that we must remain in sin to somehow glorify the price he paid. Never mind that the apostle Paul addressed this very school of erroneous thought in no uncertain terms, saying, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” (Rom. 6:1,2) Actually that is exactly what much of today's Christian religion claims, that we do continue in sin, and that this does indeed cause grace to abound. After all, “he paid the price.” Someone is very wrong about the Bible my friend, and they are very wrong indeed. Because he that is truly “joined to the Lord” is literally one spirit with him, and that one spirit is one of holiness by means of his HOLY Spirit. Otherwise we are confronted with a very dreadful predicament, which the apostle Paul also addressed: “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid” (Gal. 2:17). God forbid indeed my friend! So let’s just be real with ourselves and with God, and “purify [ourselves] even as he is pure” (I Jn. 3:3) Amen.