YOU ARE HIS JOY AND MUCH MORE

(Php 4:1)  Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

Paul is speaking here, but he is reiterating what you are to the Lord.

We hear alot about who I am in Christ, but little about who you are to Him.

You are:
His beloved ( longed for brethren)

His joy

His crown ( crown of creation)

His own special kin

His chosen generation

His holy nation

His possession (bought with a price)

His elect Col. 3:12

His precious

His fellow worker

His field

His building; His temple 1 Cor. 6:19

His child

His branch of the true vine, and a conduit of Christ’s life. John 15:1,5

His friend  John 15:15

His  justified and redeemed. Romans 3:24

His creation --So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away--look, what is new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17)

His  chosen --For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love (Ephesians 1:4).

His inheritance.His workmanship --For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them (Ephesians 2:10).

His light… For you were at one time darkness, but now you are the light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light (Ephesians 5:8).

His completeness

His life… For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3). Gal 2:20

His glory--When Christ (who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him (Colossians 3:4).

His fellow heir  Rom. 8:17, Gal. 4:7

His accepted  Romans 15:7

His righteousness 1 Cor. 1:30, 2 Cor. 5:21

His little spirit, one spirit with Him.

But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him (1 Corinthians 6:17).

His seatmate… And he raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus … (Ephesians 2:6).

His partaker of His promise.… The Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 3:6). (See also Ephesians 5:30.)

SALVATION IS PROGRESSIVE

SALVATION IS PROGRESSIVE

2 Corinthians 1:10, KJV  Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us.

The Greek noun for "salvation" is soteria.  The verb is sozo.  This is simple yet profound:  our "salvation" is a "complete deliverance."  Salvation is progressive.  Our spirit has been saved (Col. 1:9-13), our soul is being saved, our mind is being renewed (Heb. 10:38-39), and our body shall be saved (Phil. 3:21).

From strength to strength (Psa. 84:7), from faith to faith (Rom. 1:17), and from glory to glory (2 Cor. 3:18), we are being changed.  The ascended life, as revealed throughout the Psalms of Degrees, is the life of transformation.

To live is to grow.  To grow is to change. Spiritual growth denotes change after change after change.

Matthew 17:2, KJV  And was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light (compare Mk. 9:2).

Romans 12:2, KJV  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 

2 Corinthians 3:18, KJV  But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.  

The word translated above as "transfigured," "transformed," and "changed," is the Greek verb metamorphoo, and it means, "to change into another form, to transform."  It is derived from meta (change) and morphoo (to form, fashion).  The fifteen Psalms of Ascent, a revelation of the ascended life, has to do with our growth, movement, progression, maturity, change, formation, development, restoration, repentance (change of mind), and transfiguration.

Romans 8:29, KJV  For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He (Jesus) might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Biblical sonship has to do with our maturing in Christ.  For example, the epistle to the Galatians has as its theme the maturation of the seed (Gal. 3:7,9,16,29; 4:6,19).

We are being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.  We are ascending into the higher realms of the Spirit.  We are returning to the dominion in Eden, and to the bosom of the Father.  We are being changed.  We are being saved (delivered), growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  We are ascending into Zion and the full authority of His throne, the hill of the Lord.  Our salvation is progressive.  We are becoming just like Jesus!

Psalms 24:3-6, NIV  Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place?

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false.

He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from God his Savior.

Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, O God of Jacob. Selah

Now many would say it is done and finished and this is true in the spiritual realm. The soul is just catching up.

I AM SAVED IN MY SPIRIT; I AM BEING SAVED IN MY SOUL AND MY BODY SHALL BE SAVED.