The Spirit of Christ
Today’s Focus: Introduction
Scripture: Romans 8:11,15,16; Galatians 4:6; Genesis 1:26
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
What is the Spirit of Christ? To sum it all up into one word, it is Son. The Spirit of Christ is Son. We hear many people say they are Christ-like. What does that mean? Evaluating the state of the church we are going to have some problems really explaining that but in this series we want to look at the Spirit of Christ and how we are called to be like Christ and walk in the fullness of the Spirit of Christ.
In order to walk in the Spirit of Christ you must first have Him dwelling in you. Now watch this scripture because we will be coming back to this passage later in the series:
Galatians 4:6: And because ye are sons, God hath sent for the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Do we see this? God is sending the Spirit of His Son. Who is the Spirit of His Son? Christ! Just like we said before that the Spirit of Christ is Son. Now notice the scripture does not say, because you are Christians, it says because you are sons. This means our primary identity is to be sons of God. A son in Hebrew is an offspring. So when I use the term son, this includes males and females. Let me show you this next set of scripture to further prove that your primary identity is not Christian but son. Now I will use two scriptures of this entire passage for the sake of time.
Romans 8:11,15,16: But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead DWELL IN YOU, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken (give life) to your mortal bodies by HIS SPIRIT THAT DWELLETH IN YOU. 15-For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God
So it is the abiding of the Spirit of Christ in us to confirm that we are sons of God. God has always maintained this identity for us. Even when it came to Adam, Adam was called His son. Everyone who came from the womb of God are sons of God. God designed us to be in His image and after His likeness and to have dominion (Genesis 1:26) that is our purpose. Now this dominion just does not automatically happen. There are steps that God takes us through to bring us to the level where we can handle the power and authority given to us.
In the next message we will look at how God does that because if we do not understand how God does this we will not be able to manifest the Kingdom culture and culture of the Son.
Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
