'The Armor of God' is Christformation in you.

'The Armor of God' is Christformation in you.
(Christformation in you Ministries)

Introduction

Ephesians 6:10-18 (New International Version)

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

The Armor of God mentioned here is Christformation in you and me, if we obey the Holy Spirit continually till the end . This outfit has the different parts of the divine nature of Christ in them. for example; righteousness,truth,eternal life,faith, word,intercession and prayer,good news for all,peace, salvation and so forth. Christ has to be formed in us in order for us to have this whole nature within. With these powerful divine nature of Christ formed in us, we can stand firmly against the Devil and it's evil schemes to overcome the Evil one.

Noah, Daniel, and Job

Noah, Daniel, and Job
(Christformation in you Ministries)

Introduction

Ezekiel 14:12-14 (New International Version)

The word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, if a country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send famine upon it and kill its men and their animals, even if these three men—Noah, Daniel and Job—were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign LORD.

Noah, Daniel and Job were three true servants of the Lord in the Old Testament times. They clung on to their God in very adverse conditions and situations that they were placed in by God.

They were unusual men during their times, for they had this unwavering faith in their God in whatever they did. All odds were against them and they came out of it stronger in God in whom they have trusted.

There were other men and women too, but in these verses above, God remembers these three faithful men. God remembers all those who are true to Him and reminds His people whenever they have forgotten history. History is not just about statistics and facts, but it is about people- real people, who lived real lives before us. The most important truth about these men was that God was real to them. They had real encounters with the living Sovereign God.(To be continued)

Builders-rejected Capstone of God

‘Builders-rejected’ Capstone of God.
(Christformation in you Ministries)

Introduction

Acts 4:11-12 (New International Version)

He is
‘the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the capstone. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by whom we must be saved."

The verses above are found both in the Old and the New Testaments. They were spoken as prophecies and fulfilled prophecies of how Christ will be treated and rejected by the ‘so-called’ foolish builders.

They were referred to as so-called ‘builders’ here because they presumed that the responsibility of religion was to be shouldered by them alone and no one else. They regarded themselves as ‘God’s representatives’ or self appointed champions for building the kingdom of God on earth when God didn’t even know who they were neither did they recognize Him when He appeared before them in the flesh. They did not recognize Christ our Lord when He appeared in the flesh. They were too proud in their hearts to admit that He was the Christ “The proud will be crushed” the Lord Jesus prophesied for they were too proud and arrogant in their hearts to recognize Him as the Messiah.

Of such, the Lord Jesus Christ said:

Matthew 21: 42- 44 (NIV)

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures:
" 'The stone the builders rejected
has become the capstone;
the Lord has done this,
and it is marvelous in our eyes'?
"Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed."

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus' parables, they knew he was talking about them. They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.

The Lord Jesus Christ rebuked those foolish ‘builders’ by saying that the responsibility of religion was no more on them, as all of them have fallen short. At one time it was, but now it has been taken away from them.

The Lord Jesus Christ chose his disciples who were humble and lowly at heart except for Judas Iscariot who was the 'son of Perdition'. Christ our Lord entrusted them with the gospel to forward the good news of God reaching out to man through Christ. He chose simple fishermen like Peter, John, James and Andrew.

It requires a broken and contrite heart to be able to preach the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ truthfully. There were and still are many who are preaching the gospel untruthfully too. There is no place for pride and arrogance to represent the Living God. The devil himself was once an angel by the name of Lucifer, who was responsible for the things of God in heaven until pride and arrogance filled him that made him yearn for the worship of angels and man. “He was thrown down to earth like lightning as a punishment” said the Lord Jesus Christ. There is a proverb, ‘pride comes before a fall’. One third of the angels fell with the devil at the same fall.

The devil, the fallen angels and all human beings who do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior stand condemned before God and are waiting to be annihilated in the lake of fire eternally soon.

However, there is a little time left for those who will believe in Christ to be their Lord and Savior.

They rejected the Capstone of God’s building.

Psalm 118:17-24 (New International Version)

17 I will not die but live,
and will proclaim what the LORD has done.
18 The LORD has chastened me severely,
but he has not given me over to death.
19 Open for me the gates of righteousness;
I will enter and give thanks to the LORD.
20 This is the gate of the LORD
through which the righteous may enter.
21 I will give you thanks, for you answered me;
you have become my salvation.
22 The stone the builders rejected
has become the capstone;
23 the LORD has done this,
and it is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day the LORD has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.

How could a building stand when the very capstone of that building was rejected. When you have willfully rejected the Capstone, you have rejected the foundation too. The Foundation and the Capstone is both Christ who is formed in us whenever we obey Him. These ‘so-called’ builders were blind and they expected God to accept them and their blemished sacrifices when they could not understand what God was doing before them. They did not know how to differentiate between the Capstone that God had sent for His building and the ‘ordinary stone or sand’ they were trying to build upon. They had refused to obey Christ, which is the basis of the matter. It’s plain disobedience to God and His Christ.

These ‘so-called’ builders killed the very Capstone that God had sent, not knowing that God could raise Him up again by His power. They could only see the Capstone with the eyes of natural man for they were spiritually blind and could not see beyond the physical realm.

When someone worldly resorts to physical harm using and abusing of man-made laws to carry out their evil plans, it is a clear sign of them admitting defeat because they could not fight Him spiritually so they would turn to other physical means of intimidation and harm. From this we know that they never belonged to God and they belonged to the defeated Foe.

If God was for Christ, how could this ‘builders’ fight Him? They might have ‘won’ temporarily with the use of evil authority but they had to face the truth that they were doomed eternally, when Christ rose from the dead triumphantly (from the grave) after three days. The ‘keys’ leading to death and Hades were taken away permanently from the Devil through Christ’s resurrection. The Devil had no more power through death over all of God’s chosen, called and faithful children in Christ. The devil had lost permanent control over men’s decision to follow Christ, now and forever.

The chief priests, priests, Pharisees and Sadducees saw themselves as the ‘builders’ of the Judaic religion and any threat to it was challenged.

They saw the Lord Jesus Christ as a threat to their religion for they could not see the truth that He did not come to establish a religion on earth. They persecuted, tortured, and physically harmed Him with the evil support of the multitudes on that cruel Cross at Calvary but yet they lost the spiritual battle to Christ our Lord in the end.

It was not a religion He came to establish, as these foolish ‘builders’ had thought. He came to die as the sacrificial Lamb of God to redeem back those who are God’s from the hand of the Devil. Satan brought death in the Garden of Eden to Adam and Eve in their spirit; But Christ brought everlasting life to spirit, soul and body of those who are called, chosen and remain faithful to Christ till the end.

These men were rather foolish ‘destroyers’ than ‘builders’. They did not only destroy themselves but others who were blind like them. The so- called leaders lost the spiritual battle in the end. They could not stand up to the Lord Jesus Christ and His power shown within and around Him. Even the grave couldn’t hold Him in. Such was the power of His holiness within Him. There was no sin or decay found in Him. Now, for those who would believe in Him and the Heavenly Father whom He sent, will live eternally like them too.

The Devil and its children will be condemned forever into the lake of fire. ‘The Devil’s children’ refers to the foolish builders and those who believed and accepted in these ‘builders’ and in whatsoever they taught them.

He was chosen of God but rejected by men.

1 Peter 2:4-8 (New International Version)

As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him— you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says:
"See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
will never be put to shame." Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,
"The stone the builders rejected
has become the capstone, and,
"A stone that causes men to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall." They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.

When you are chosen of God you will be hated by men of this world for no known reason. The devil knows those who believe in Christ and will seek to hate them through its own children. Even the Lord Jesus Christ’s immediate family had rejected Him for no known reason except that He was visibly sinless and had obeyed God the Father in everything He did and said. It required humility for those around Him to believe and accept Him as He was revealed; poor and lowly in the eyes of men but rich in the eyes of God the Father.

The Jews rejected Christ our Lord as the Messiah sent by God but the glorious door was wide opened for the Gentiles to believe in Him and be saved from their sins and be freed from the author of sin who is Satan the Devil.

The so-called ‘builders’ of the Judaic religion rejected Christ to be their Savior and Lord and all they could built upon was the Old covenant even when the promised new covenant was offered to them.
The Parable of the Tenants best describes how the Jews rejected Christ.

Mark 12:1-12 (New International Version)

He then began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey. At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed. Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully. He sent still another and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat others they killed.

"He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
"But the tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.
"What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others. Haven't you read this scripture:
”‘The stone the builders rejected
has become the capstone;
the Lord has done this,
and it is marvelous in our eyes'?"

Then they looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.
The intentions of their hearts were bad for they had ‘kicked against the pricks’. They showed no fear of coming against Christ even when warned so. They rejected their own Savior and Lord, who came for them and appeared before them in flesh. They laughed and mocked at Christ for all the sufferings he had to endure to reveal God to mankind.

The Psalms warns us for that was their day and now will come God’s turn for them. The last laugh will come from God Himself for anyone who rejects his only begotten Son.

Psalm 2:1-12 (New International Version)

1 Why do the nations conspire
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth take their stand
and the rulers gather together
against the LORD
and against his Anointed One.
3 "Let us break their chains," they say,
"and throw off their fetters."
4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
the Lord scoffs at them.
5 Then he rebukes them in his anger
and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
6 "I have installed my King
on Zion, my holy hill."
7 I will proclaim the decree of the LORD:
He said to me, "You are my Son;
today I have become your Father.
8 Ask of me,
and I will make the nations your inheritance,
the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You will rule them with an iron scepter;
you will dash them to pieces like pottery."
10 Therefore, you kings, be wise;
be warned, you rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear
and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry
and you be destroyed in your way,
for his wrath can flare up in a moment.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

There is no other ‘Capstone’ for God’s building.

You might have understood by now that there is no other Capstone that Christ himself for building God’s kingdom. He is the Foundation and the Capstone that will remain forever. This heaven, earth and the old order of things will pass away in just a twinkle of the eye but the Foundation and Capstone with God’s building that are, you and I, with Christformation in us will remain forever.

The ‘Parable of the wise and the foolish builders’ will explain this eternal truth to us. This parable does not only speak about the temporal building we call church today but God’s eternal building in which Christ is the Foundation and the Capstone. All other building will crumble down forever. Any ‘building’ built on other than Christ who is God’s eternal Foundation and Capstone will not stand.

Matthew 7:24-27 (New International Version)

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."

Christformation in us happens on this eternal Foundation and Capstone. It fills up to the fullness of Christ in us and God’s building will be complete.

1 Corinthians 3:10-15 (New International Version)

By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.

If you have rejected Christ, you would have rejected God and His eternal plan of building His house where He chose to dwell forever from the beginning of times.

Conclusion

Christ Jesus our Lord is the house where God lives in and He will be built in us. This house is being prepared through Christformation in us.
When the Lord Jesus Christ said: “do not be afraid or worried, I’ll go and build that house with many rooms” He was referring to the house through Christformation in us. The many rooms are the many divine natures of Christ to be formed in us so that we become the eternal dwelling of God. Those who are called through predestination, chosen and found faithful will jointly formed the spiritual dwelling of God in Christ for eternity through God’s Holy Spirit. Now we are the temple of the Holy Spirit here on earth bearing the testimony of Jesus but through full Christformation in us we will become the temple of the Heavenly Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit together.

There will be no need for a physical structure or temple made out of man’s hands for there shall be none in His presence.

John 14:1-6 (New International Version)

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going."

Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Written by Ronald K.Pillai

Coming out of Captivity.

Each time the people of God are in captivity to the Enemy, it will be a difficult task setting them free from that bondage and slavery.It often involved the prophets of God who will stand in between God and His people. There were two significant captivities to the Enemy during the Old Testament times. One was the captivity and slavery in Egypt and the other in Babylon.One was under the evil rule of Pharoah and the other under the 'mad' Nebuchadnezzar.

Now will enter the times of the third captivity of which Christ our Lord will be the perfect Prophet and Deliverer Himself.Here comes the final Rightful Deliverer of God's own people!

This will be the Day and times the whole world has been waiting for. One side is waiting for the full maturity of greed,covetousness and the sinful nature and all it's abominations, whereas the other, is waiting and enduring patiently for the final and decisive display of Truth, Justice and Righteousness of His Christ while having the testimony of Jesus in them.

Romans 8:18-25 (New International Version)

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

Gold refined in fire’ is Christformation in you

‘Gold refined in fire’ is Christformation in you.
(Christformation in you Ministries)

Introduction

Revelation 3:17-20 (New International Version)

You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.

The verses above speak of Christformation in us.

“I counsel you to buy gold refined in the fire”, the Lord Jesus Christ himself says to His chosen ones. He says, come and buy it from me.

As it has been said before, salvation is free in Christ when you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is your Lord,Redeemer, Savior and King of your life. But, Christformation happens in you with a price to be paid by you. You have to buy Christformation in you by paying the price after you have agreed to count the cost of throwing off everything that hinders your faith in Christ and be ready to be refined like gold in the fire of testing and trials with much tribulation.

You may ask; when did I agree to that? Didn’t you say that you will ‘carry your cross daily and follow Him’ from the start of your walk with Him or did some stranger or some strange teaching convince you that you don’t have to suffer anymore and all will be ‘rosy’ for you from now on.

The Lord Jesus Christ paid every price to purchase you and me to redeem us from the grip of the evil right of the Devil over our life that started when Adam and Eve chose to disobey God and choose Satan’s (The devil) ways above God’s. It is our turn now as children of the Last Adam (The Lord Jesus Christ) now to pay the price as firstfruits to buy Christformation in us no matter how difficult it is going to be.

That’s what ‘gold refined in fire’ means- Christformation in you through much refining transforming your soul and later your body. Remember, you have to put to death the sinful nature of the devil in you and that is going to be very difficult to do. Did anyone warn you, when you first believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, that you would have to give up that sinful nature of the devil in you?

You will go through much tribulation, suffering, rejection, pain, hurts, insults, ridiculing, humiliation, mocking, jeering, hatred, ostracizing, sometimes even physical harm and death for Christformation in you. This is what you call ‘gold refined in fire’. Are you willing to go through all these as long as the sinful nature of the devil is put to death in you, or, will you opt to run away from all these testing of your faith instead and seek to please your sinful nature which is not put to death yet?

The ‘rich’ that the Lord Jesus Christ said is different from the rich the world talks about twenty-four hours in a day.

You will become rich with Christformation in you

Psalm 19:7-11 (New International Version)

7 The law of the LORD is perfect,
reviving the soul.
The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy,
making wise the simple.
8 The precepts of the LORD are right,
giving joy to the heart.
The commands of the LORD are radiant,
giving light to the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is pure,
enduring forever.
The ordinances of the LORD are sure
and altogether righteous.
10 They are more precious than gold,
than much pure gold;
they are sweeter than honey,
than honey from the comb.
11 By them is your servant warned;
in keeping them there is great reward.

The devil and the children of the devil will tell you that “you can be rich in this world” but here the Lord Jesus Christ is saying “you can be rich” with full Christformation in you. Choose you this day whose voice you would obey. Look at the rewards; one is eternal and the other temporal.

Are you being tempted of the devil to be rich in this world? It’s not surprising; The Lord Jesus Christ himself was tempted of the devil with this temptation “I will give you all these things only if you will bow down to me and serve me”, the devil tempted Christ with these words.

Christ our Lord said “no” to the devil. What about you? Don’t you know that the riches of this world will corrupt you even more? Satan will hold you in its grip with this greed in you. He will whisper to you that your satisfaction comes from this world and not in Christ. The truth is your true and eternal satisfaction comes from Christ and not this world. The perfect law was fulfilled only in Him; the righteous precepts of the Lord were revealed through him; the commandments of the Lord were obeyed only by Him; and He showed us what the fear of the Lord is. He is purer than gold that is tested in fire.

Just like the devil is calling out to you to be a slave of wickedness to him all your life with greed and more greed, while you’re ignorantly helping the devil destroy you and others around you so that they do not become saved in Christ and have successful Christformation in them.

This is what the devil wants. He wants to see us destroyed eternally without Christ being formed in us. So, he will seek to have control over your life. The yoke to hold you is the sinful nature that was sown in you through Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. He seeks to hold you in its grip with that yoke and not let you go that easily. We must trust in the power of the Holy Spirit to lead us to Christ for true deliverance from that destructive sinful nature. Christ will circumcise the sinful nature away from us through his Spirit in us.

It’s not going to be that easy unless you surrender fully to the power of the Holy Spirit in you to bring about full Christformation in you.

The Lord Jesus Christ said the riches of this world have made you proud and arrogant. You say, “I am rich, I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing”. Christ says to you, “you have become blind and naked but you do not know it”. Your pride has brought about your fall.

You have fallen to the deception of the devil that holds you to continue seeking riches of this world above the riches in Christ. The riches in Christ are the riches you have obtain through full Christformation in you. But, before that happens you would have to come humbly to him and buy it from him. Buy what? Yes, buy Christformation in you.

Matthew 11:29 (New International Version)

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
“Take my yoke upon you”, which means, “be my slave of righteousness instead”. ‘My yoke’ is the Holy Spirit in you. Its burden is light and Christformation in you will be easy. Before you become a slave of righteousness of Christ, you will have to learn from Him. Learn what?
“Learn from me” Christ said. ‘Learn from me’ is the same as “come, buy from me” as in Revelation chapter 3.

“Learn and buy” what? Yes, buy that “rest for your souls”. Your soul will not come to that true rest in Christ without Christformation in you.
The more the Christformation in you, the more the true rest of God fills and transforms your soul. Your soul will not rest until there is true transformation coming from Christformation in you. We can only come to this state of true rest of God by learning from Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ says that it involves obedience to the Holy Spirit in you just like He is gentle and humble in heart to obey the Holy Spirit and His Father in heaven.

The Holy Spirit will bring into us that nature of Christ. Humility, gentleness are sown into us by the Holy Spirit when we continue obeying Him, no matter how difficult it is. These riches of Christ fill our lives through the power of the Holy Spirit only when we are willing to pay the price for Christformation in us. This is ‘’gold refined in fire’. The fruit of the Holy Spirit will fill us through Christformation in us because the fruit is the divine nature of Christ sown in us through Christformation.

The Holy Spirit is the fire that burns up and removes the chaff and fills us with full Christformation in us when we yield fully to Him.

The divine nature of Christ formed in us with the absence of the sinful nature of the devil is ‘gold refined in fire’. This will be a trying process within us. The battle will be there continuously between the two. Either you will obey the Holy Spirit or the sinful nature that is not put to death in you yet. Full Christformation happens only when the sinful nature is fully put to death in us. This is what it means to be an “overcomer in Christ”. We are more than overcomers in Christ if we willingly obey the Holy Spirit in us. This is what it means to “sow into the Spirit of God in you”.

As long as Christformation is not happening in you, you are poor and wretched in the eyes of God. You may be rich and have enough of everything in this world but you will be pitiful, blind, poor and naked in the eyes of Christ. You will be in want of the things of God.

You cannot have both, just as you cannot have both the divine nature of Christ and the sinful nature of the devil in you living happily together. There is war daily. One of the two has to die in that battle. You must put to death the sinful nature in you if you want full Christformation in you. It must be the love of Christ that makes us want to obey the Holy Spirit. True obedience is out of the love of Christ sown in us. This is the eternal love of God the Father in us. Christ rebukes and disciplines those whom He loves.

With full Christformation in you, you can become rich with the things of God and His Christ. You will have ‘white clothes to wear’. White clothes are full Christformation in you. You will appear “shameful and naked” without full Christformation in you. Full Christformation in you will also put the “salve into your eyes” so that you can face Christ on that Day. You will truly be able to see God as He is.

“If you will open the door of your heart for me to come in then I will come in and eat with you and you with me”. Only if you allow Christformation in you, it will happen. If not, you will stand shameful and naked before Him. Obedience is important when you hear Him “knock on the door of your heart”. If you want to allow Him into you for full Christformation, you must first of all be able to hear His voice. To hear His voice you must listen to the Holy Spirit in you. All the things of Christ we obtain by the Holy Spirit in us through our love, communion and obedience to Him.

That “eating with him and him with you” is the communion we will have through the Holy Spirit in our born again spirit. There is active communion with Christ during Christformation in us through the Holy Spirit. That’s when we realize that we are “seated with him in the heavenlies” though we are on earth.

Christformation must take place in you without any hindrance if you do not want to look “pitiful” like a beggar in God’s eyes. This will be your clothing that you ‘worked out’ diligently with fear and trembling in Christ, while on earth.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 (New International Version)

For, our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For, what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Stand the test for full Christformation in you

The Holy Spirit will shield you faithfully when you go through strict disciplining from God to burn away the sinful nature of the devil in you. The Holy Spirit will assist you with full Christformation in you.

The refining process might be ‘painful’, for every form of disciplining will be painful. But, the Holy Spirit will protect and guide you gently. Christ our Lord rebukes and disciplines whom He loves

1 Peter 1:3-7 (New International Version)

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Full Christformation in you cannot happen without your faith put into action while on earth. Faith when put into action produces full Christformation in you that will prove the genuineness of your faith in Christ. This pure faith in Christ is ‘purer than gold’ when tested to produce Christformation in you. The end-result of Christ being fully formed in you will be ‘purer than any gold’. But, at the moment this ‘’gold’ has to be tested in you to prove if it is genuine.

Ordinary gold will perish when tested with fire but not this special ‘gold tested in fire’ which is Christformation in you. Heaven and earth will pass away but this Word that has filled this obedient born again spirit will not perish. It will stand through the final test for all mankind.

Genuine Christformation in you will become your inheritance in Christ that will not perish, spoil or fade. It will be kept at God’s throne that will come and clothe us on that day of Christ.

Let’s keep our eyes and hearts fixed on these things of Christ our Lord that do not perish. Let us not set our hearts and minds away to anything temporary but let us seek the eternal things of Christ that remains forever and ever. We will find the true rest of God for our souls if we do this or else we will be going in circles like a restless wanderer in this world. We rightfully belong to Christ and Christ must be formed in us fully.

Gold refined in fire is full Christformation in you.

Full Christformation in You will be revealed with fire

1 Corinthians 3:10-15 (New International Version)

By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.

If you want to escape the fire, Christ must be formed in you fully. You will have something ‘purer than gold’ that will escape being burnt up.

Christformation in you is purer than gold but if full Christformation is not formed in you than certain parts of you that yielded to the sinful nature will be burnt up. You will be saved but only as one having a narrow escape from a raging fire.
The foundation is Christ our Lord and what you allow to be built on that foundation by the power of the Holy Spirit is Christformation in you.

Full Christformation would mean you have obeyed the Holy Spirit fully even if it meant giving up the pleasures of this world, while everyone is still indulging in it. You might have felt or still feel lonely in your walk with the Lord because not many would want to pay the price for full Christformation, but you persisted on and were found faithful to the Lord. This is what it means to be called, chosen and found faithful by the Lord, in spite of the consequences you have to patiently endure for choosing that narrow path.

The very fact that the apostle Paul mentions that other materials could have been laid on the foundation to build that house like silver, wood and hay means that the choice is still yours. As we know, these materials are inferior in quality than gold and will not stand the heat of that fire. It will be burnt up. If you have chosen to build on that foundation of Christ with hay, that would mean you have wasted all your sowing and your building will be in vain.

Anything short of Christformation in you will be burnt up. Only when Christ is formed in us we will be able to stand that test. What more if. Christ is fully formed in us. We will be fully Christ’s and nothing will be burnt up.

Conclusion

Christ’s counsel for us is to buy gold tried in fire is for full Christformation in us with the prize of giving up our lives fully for Him and the kingdom of God in you. For only that will remain for eternity in us.

We must actively sow into our born again spirit with the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. Our faith in Christ will be tested with fire and what remains will be proven genuine. We must act out our faith with obedience to the Holy Spirit who guides us to full Christformation in us. We should remain obedient to Him in all of our circumstances of walk in Christ and stand through the test of fire.

No matter what happens we must remain and go through the many tests of our faith in Christ our Lord. Our goal must be full Christformation in us fully assisted by the indispensible help of the Holy Spirit in us. We will be a pleasing sight to our Heavenly Father with Christ fully formed in us. We will become their eternal dwelling!

If we try to save the sinful nature that pleases self above God, then we will lose full Christformation in us.

Written by Ronald K.Pillai

No Other Name!

There is no other name whereby we can be saved than through the wonderful name of Jesus Christ our Lord. In Him is the fullness of God Jehovah,Elohim,Adonai,El-Shaddai and God the Father with all His names.

When we lift up the name of Jesus Christ his beloved Son, we have lifted up the name of our Father in Heaven. No man goes to the Father in heaven except through Jesus Christ his beloved Son.There is no point in disputing over which name we should use now to address God the Father in Heaven.When we address and lift up the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, we have lifted up the name of our Father in Heaven.

The Judaic religion has done much in the past to dispute over which name to use to address God the Father and it did not save them.Salvation is only through the name of Jesus Christ our Savior.

If you have failed to live as Christ as required you to, there is no point in fighting over which name to use to address God.Our lip-service will do us or God no good at all. He wants us to obey Christ whom He has sent and we must keep all His commandments. Just because you mention his name does not mean you will be saved. What you say and do must go together or else what you say will not have any meaning at all.You can fool men but you cannot fool God, His Christ or His Spirit.

Full Christformation In You

Full Christformation in You
(Christformation in you Ministries)

Introduction

Colossians 1:15-20 (New International Version)

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Full-Christformation is the fullness of God formed in us.
God the Father was pleased to have all the fullness of God to dwell in Christ our Lord and to reconcile all things to Himself through Christ. God is going to reconcile to Himself all those who are chosen, called and faithful through Christformation in them.

In order to reconcile all things lost in the Garden of Eden to God the Father, Christ became that ‘peace offering’. He redeemed us with this ‘peace offering’ through the atonement on the cross at Calvary. He had no sin in Him but took upon Himself our sins. He redeems us to reconcile us back to God.

As we have read in the verses above, why then did God the Father make the fullness of God dwell in Christ, His only begotten Son? Why was it necessary that the fullness of God dwell in Christ?

The answer to that is “He is the Image of the Invisible God, The Firstborn over all creation so that, all creation will be reconciled to The Heavenly Father through Christ. He is the exact representation of the Heavenly Father to whom we will be reconciled to”.

Hebrews 1:3 (New International Version)

The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
In Christ‘s teachings He had said many times that “the Father is in me, and I am in my Father” He also said that “if you have seen me, you have seen my Father in Heaven” Fullness of God dwells in Christ our Lord.

Fullness of God in Christ

Ephesians 3:16-19 (New International Version)

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

The fullness of God is in Christ our Lord. When we are filled with Christ we are filled with God in all His fullness. The “love that surpasses knowledge” is the same love shared between the Father and His only begotten Son. The Lord Jesus Christ prayed for us in John chapter 17 that we may know the Father’s and Christ’s love for each other and be filled with the full width, length, height, and depth of that love. By this way, we will be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Why do we need power to be filled with this love of God?

We need the power of the Holy Spirit in us for full Christformation in us. This is how we know if we are filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. Christformation in us will show if we are filled with that power of God.

John 17:13 (New International Version)

"I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.
We need the power of the Holy Spirit in us to bring about the full measure of the divine nature of Christ. True joy is His nature in us.

John 17:26 (New International Version)

I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
It’s the love of God that brings the fullness of God into us. It does not come any other way. It’s a love relationship of union and communion.
This relationship is born out of the love of God and His Christ’s in us and will grow till this love is fully formed in us. I am not talking about the worldly kind of love which is a counterfeit of the love of God and His Christ’s.

John 14:23 (New International Version)

Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

This love for God with all our hearts, minds, soul and physical strength will form Christ in us fully because Christ said that if you love me that much, you will keep my commandments fully.

The Holy Spirit will lead us to full-Christformation in us if we obey God’s commandments out of that love shared abroad in our hearts.

Ephesians 2:18-22 (New International Version)

For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

We have access to the Father in heaven by the Holy Spirit through Christ our Lord. With full Christformation in us we become the dwelling of God by His spirit. We see the complete Christformation in us in these verses above. From the Chief Cornerstone, through the joining together and the rising to become the holy temple in the Lord is the pre-vision of full-Christformation in us jointly.

Fullness of His Spirit in us

Fullness of His Spirit in us will lead to full-Christformation in us if we continue obeying the Holy Spirit in us.
When we are full of the Spirit of God we will be led by the Holy Spirit and not our sinful nature. There is a constant war between the divine nature of Christ and the sinful nature in us if you do not put to death the evil nature of Satan. Fullness of the Holy Spirit will cause you to put to death all the misdeeds of the sinful nature in you.

Ephesians 5:17-21 (New International Version)

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We will be sowing into Christformation when we obey the Holy Spirit in us. When we carelessly fill our sinful nature with the pleasures of wine we will be led into debauchery and other sins that will defile us more.

But, if you are filled with the Holy Spirit in you, you will be led by the Spirit into a life of pleasing God the Father and His Christ. Fullness of the Spirit will lead to fullness of Christ in us. When you are filled with Christ you are filled with the Heavenly Father in you too.

If you live half pleasing the Spirit of God and the other half pleasing the sinful nature in you, then how will Christ be formed in you fully?
Imagine yourselves half-exposed or half-dressed, how will your appearance be? You will be ashamed, right?

Galatians 6:7-8 (New International Version)

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

So let’s repent and turn away from a lifestyle of pleasing the sinful nature of Satan in us, instead, let’s please the Holy Spirit in us always. Remember, by sowing to the Spirit, we are sowing into full-Christformation in us. We will reap eternal life, for what we sow we will reap. If we say one thing and sow another thing then we will only reap what we have sown in the end.

John 14:15-21 (New International Version)

"If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and obeys them; he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."

“On that day” meaning when Christformation is taking place in us.
Because of that love relationship that leads to full obedience to His word in us we will experience that same love the Father has for His only Son. Our obedience to the Holy Spirit in us will lead to Christ showing himself to us. Full revelation of Himself to us through the Holy Spirit will result in full-Christformation in us.

John 16:12-16 (New International Version)

"I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.
"In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me."

All these things above the Holy Spirit will do in order for full-Christformation in us to take place. While Christformation is happening in us, we will see Christ as He is. He will become clearer and much clearer as He is being formed in us.
So, let us sow into this full-Christformation with the indispensible help of the Holy Spirit in us. Let us not waste any more time while it is still called ‘today’. Let’s fully obey the Holy Spirit for Christ to be formed in us fully.

Fullness of Christ in us

When we are full of the Spirit, the fullness of Christ will grow in us. This Christformation will lead us to full-Christformation, which will bring the fullness of God into us.

Colossians 3:8-15 (New International Version)

But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
All those who belong to Christ have to actively get rid of the misdeeds of the sinful nature in us. We have to put them to death voluntarily, only then can we put on the new self, which is Christformation in us which will lead us to full renewal in us meaning , full-Christformation.

The new self which is Christformation in you will fill you with these characteristics of the divine nature of Christ in you, such as, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. All these make up the divine nature of Christ in you and me. Forbearance, forgiveness and the love of Christ will bring the perfect unity that will bind all those who have Christformation in them.
Christformation in them will make the difference with that perfect unity of Christ’s obedient love. Once this love of Christ has filled us, we will be obedient to the Holy Spirit’s leading in us for full Christformation.

Colossians 2:2-3 (New International Version)

My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

The peace of Christ will not rule our hearts until we obey the Holy Spirit fully. In Christ is hidden all the treasures of God and these treasures will fill you through Christformation in you. All wisdom and knowledge is hidden in Christ. The love of Christ that unites all those in whom Christ is being formed will understand the truth that all riches of God are hidden in Christ alone.

For all these riches and treasures in Christ to fill our born again spirit, we will go through ‘painful’ experiences, as in child-birth pains. Apostle Paul said this to the Galatians describing Christformation in us. Only a woman who had delivered a child through normal birth before can describe the actual pains of childbirth, no husband or male gynecologist can.

Galatians 4:19 (New International Version)

My dear children for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you.

Paul is writing about the full inheritance of Christ in us.
The fullness of Christ inherited in us should be our goal. It will be a painful and difficult process but this is our eternal reward.

But like a woman pregnant with child, the child could be aborted or even face death prematurely. We have to be obedient to the leading of the Holy Spirit in us with our careful walk with the Lord. The promise of the Lord is that if we obey Him and persevere on we will gain Christ fully formed in us. We should throw away everything that hinders full Christformation in us, especially the sinful nature in us that leads us to sin. Do not sow to the sinful nature in you but rather put it to death.
We have to exercise obeying the Holy Spirit in us instead of the sinful nature. We have to train ourselves to listen to and obey the Holy Spirit in us.

Hebrews 5:13-14 (New International Version)

Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

God’s word is truth. God’s word is also food to us. God’s word when obeyed forms Christ in us because He is God’s word to us. He is that Word and that Word became flesh and now all flesh that is trained by it will become His Word- that means Christ in you. This is the mystery that the incorruptible Word became flesh and now all flesh that are trained by it, be clothed with the incorruptible Word through Christformation in them. This will please the Heavenly Father when all flesh that obey Him become like Him in all things.

Colossians 3:16 (New International Version)

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

The word of God will not only train us but will also train others around us with the testimony of that word in you. The testimony of the word is the testimony of Christ in you.

Conclusion

Full-Christformation will only happen in those you find the fullness of God the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. They will make their home in us only when we fully obey His word in us.

The Holy Spirit has been sent from the Heavenly Father through Christ our Lord for the purpose of full Christformation in us. We must obey Him fully on earth. He leads us to full Christformation in us for the glory of the Father in Heaven.

Written by Ronald K.Pillai









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