CHAPTER NINE

IN THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST

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Scripture Reading: 1 John 3:24b; 4:13; Rom. 8:11; 2 Tim. 4:22; Phil. 2:13; Heb. 13:21; 2 Cor. 13:14; 1 Pet. 5:10; Eph. 4:3-6, 12

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2. God's move within us in the offices and ministries of Christ in all the above-mentioned statuses:
1. Dwelling in us through His indwelling Spirit in the presence of Christ in our spirit—1 John 3:24b; 4:13; Rom. 8:11; 2 Tim. 4:22.
2. Operating in us both the willing and the working for His good pleasure—Phil. 2:13.
3. Perfecting us in every good work for the fulfilling of His will, doing in us that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ—Heb. 13:21.
4. Imparting all His riches into us for our enjoyment in His love through the grace of Christ and the fellowship of the Spirit—2 Cor. 13:14.
5. As the God of all grace, perfecting, establishing, strengthening, and grounding us that we may participate in His eternal glory, into which He has called us in Christ—1 Pet. 5:10.
6. As the Father of all of us, being over all of us, through all of us, and in all of us for the constituting and building up of the Body of Christ in the oneness of His Divine Trinity—Eph. 4:3 6, 12.
3. Such a move of God in Christ within us being also a part of God's history in His union with man.