The Angelic Conflict - Part 44 -
“Faced with what we see around us in the world, we are forced to conclude that either God has the power and does not care, or that God cares but does not have the power.” - H.G. Wells

God both cares and has the power, but He is planning something which demands the coming chaos of man’s world in order to demonstrate to all that help is to be found in Himself alone.

They totally admit their own spiritual bankruptcy and have turned utterly to the Lord Jesus Christ as God’s one and only answer to their problems.

JOH 17:9 “I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine;”

They do not recognize that there is a war on, and God neither will nor can yield.

1TI 3:16 And by common confession great is the mystery of the unique spiritual life:

1TI 3:16 - He [God] who was revealed in the flesh, Was vindicated in the Spirit, Beheld by angels, Proclaimed among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory.

2CO 4:4 the gospel of the glory of Christ,

Dislocating pastors dispensationally will mislead congregations thoroughly!

To understand God’s grace to the maximum, they have to study the objects of maximum grace, fallen, depraved, unworthy, spiritually dead members of the human race.

That teaches them something about God which they could never see - the grace and mercy of God toward undeserving and unworthy creatures.

1CO 1:27 but God has chosen the foolish ones [moros] of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak ones of the world to shame the ones which are strong,

1CO 1:28 and unknown ones of the world and the despised, that He might nullify the things that are,

His grace being manifested to us brings glory to Him in the angelic conflict; that is why there is such an attack upon the grace of God.

In salvation through faith in Christ, regenerate mankind becomes positionally superior to angels through the baptism of the Spirit and positional sanctification.

This makes us royal family of God and a new spiritual species, so all believers can live the unique spiritual life of freedom instead of an independent life of slavery.

That’s when Jesus Christ received His third royal warrant, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, and the angelic conflict shifted gears into its intensified stage.

Our Lord became the victor of the angelic conflict as an inferior creature to angels, a member of the human race.

God could not say this to deity and never said this to an angel; He said this to the humanity of Christ, making the humanity of Christ superior to angels.

EPH 2:6 that God the Father raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus,

We cannot take advantage of our position now on earth unless we live in the PPOG designed for us in eternity past by God the Father.

PHI 3:8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,

PHI 3:8 - for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ,

2CO 6:1 “We also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain”

ROM 5:6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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