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It's agreed upon by most scholars and preachers with one voice that Romans Chapter 8 is the most important part in understanding Romans.
Even Lloyd Jones said that he would pick the chapter 8 if he had to choose only one chapter.
It's such an important chapter that I'm giving you in-depth explanation of its concept over long period.
I'm giving you such explanation as you can't find out in any expository preaching book.
But it's a pity that there are some people who still don't understand those concepts well enough.
It's because you have learned the bible based on the Hellenic doctrine of duality.
The understanding of the bible was substantially distorted in the process of transition from the Sumerian civilization to the Hellenic civilization.
The bible is the last book to be understood in the perspective of dualism.
Truth is one, not two. It shouldn't be divided two.
It's the same as "Epitumia", which means "*** of two hearts." Truth is never to be understood or discussed with two hearts of Epitumia.
In the same way, it applies to the relationship between Jesus and me. If Jesus exists outside you as a separated one and as the object of your worshipping,
you are not going in the right way.
If you think that only Jesus is the son of God but "not you", therefore you need to be saved by him because you can't even imagine being the son of God, you are getting nowhere.
This is not Christianity. It seems like you're very humble and you are keeping the right place but it's far from the truth.
It all derived from the misunderstanding by the Hellenic dualism.
Rather you are sitting on the position of God by judging things for yourself.
You have to taking it into full consideration. You are not being humble.
You are getting tricked.
The bible tells us that we are the sons of God. God called the Israelites "my first son."
Isn't only Jesus the son of God? No. God calls his people "My son, my eldest son."
The gatherings of the sons is the church, the Assembly of Sons. That is the church.
We are all the sons of God, with Jesus the head and us the body. Combined with Jesus, we are the son of God.
We are one having Jesus as our head. Apostle Paul called them sons and Jesus called those who had the seeds, the truth, the seeds of God's words at heart sons.
When Jesus spoke of the son many times, he was referring to not only himself but also other sons who had Christ in them.
Jesus Christ is the representative of sons.
The bible has to be our own story!
The hebrew word 'Zera' means the seed. It means the son.
So, the son refers to all people who have the seed of truth inside them. That's the meaning of the son.
We call Jesus Christ having truth "the son" "the truth" and "the words."
Why? He has the seed, the life-giving seed, the word.
The same story goes for men and women, right?
Who has the seed of life, man or woman? Man does.
When a man gives his seed of life to a woman, the woman keeps the seed and has a baby.
The baby is called the son.
If the bride has the son, she gets sunk into the son and both of them become united and she's reborn as another son.
Therefore, those who have the truth, the seed inside them are changed from the bride into the son.
In real life, as women grow older, they become like men, more masculine.
All contains truth.
Don't think to yourself, "Why is my wife getting tougher? She's changed"
That's the way it should be.
I'm telling you that the wedding ceremony with the lamb should already be happening in your life!
It's not something that will happen in the far future.
If you are not even coming closer to any kind of such happenings at the moment, you won't have any wedding ceremony in the future, either.
It's here in this world that we should become the son!
We have the seed, Zera, the son at heart!
If we have the seed of life, the word of truth inside us, as the truth is God, it means that we are becoming "the holy temple".
We can't sense God. We can't contain God.
We can't even call him "God" How could He be called "God"?
He is the being we can't call by anything. That's why the Hebrews called Him by different name "Adonay"
We can't even call him "Being" because we should feel with our senses to call someone "being."
But we can't sense Him.
Thus I'm not saying that the omnipotent God enters us.
How could we contain the Creator of all heavens and earth inside us? I'm telling you that "the truth of God" enters us!
If the truth, words of truth, which is understood with our mind, comes inside us, God considers He lives in us.
If we contains God's truth inside us, we call it "Elohim."
So if Elohim lives inside us, we are becoming his holy temple, because He resides in the holy temple, holy house.
The Hebrews called the house "Aleph Bayit" "Alpha Bet" which means the house of God, because "Aleph(Alpha)" has the meaning of "Cow, Men, God" and "Bayit(Betha) has the meaning of "the house".
Also, they called it another way "Ah bu", here "Bu" means "Father."
That explains why Jesus said "Father is in me, I'm in Father."
Here "Father" means people who have the truth inside them.