Colossians 2:6-10 ... 4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you
with enticing words. 5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I
with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the
stedfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 As ye have therefore received
Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him,
and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught (by God), abounding therein
with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy
and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the
world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of
the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of
all principality and power:
Exhortation: (Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet)
How do we "receive" Jesus Christ?
Jesus is the Word of truth. As God illuminates to us The Word, we receive Jesus. It comes through the Word being revealed from God by His Spirit.
Many sit in churches today and hear the word but without illumination from God. Of their own minds they try to figure it out. But they do not turn to God. They turn to their own minds and to the minds of other humans.
Understanding is from God. We cannot understand things of the Spirit by our minds.
We have a great many sitting in church groups and thinking they are Christians without the Spirit of God.
Mt. 16 ... When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 14And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. 15He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 18And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
God revealed to Peter that Jesus is the Christ.
When Jesus asked the question and Peter answered the question. Jesus said Peter was blessed because what he answered was revealed by God and not by man. This is the rock... the word revealed by God. The gates of hell will not stand against that which God reveals by His Spirit.
So we who belong to God hear from God by His Spirit concerning the things of God. We live in that word. And we are made complete through that word as we go through this present life for God speaks to us many times to show us HIS way as we live on this earth.
We who hear from God and follow the directions revealed to us from God by His Spirit are the sons of God.
Jude ... But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18How that they told you there should be mockers (imitators) in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
These "mockers", imitators, try to copy those people who have the Spirit of God. But they do not have the Spirit of God. They sit among those who are of God but they are not of God having not the Spirit.
Everything of God is done by the Spirit of God which is the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
Jesus said: Jn. 6:63 ... It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.