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incarnation through resurrection. In this proc ess He accomplished everything that is required by God's righteousness, holiness, and glory and all that is needed to enable us to partake of Him. He was God incarnated to be a man, and as a man, He was transfigured through resurrection into the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45). Now in resurrection as the life-giving Spirit He is so available to us that we may receive Him and take Him in at any time and in any place.
CHRIST, NEAR TO YOU
Please pay attention to what Paul says in verse 8. "But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart: that is, the word of the faith which we preach." The res urrected Christ as the living Word is near us, in our mouth and in our heart. In this verse Paul suddenly uses the term "the word" interchange ably for Christ, indicating thereby that this Word undoubtedly is Christ Himself. Christ in resur rection as the life-giving Spirit is the living Word. This corresponds to the New Testament reve lation that the Word is the Spirit. If you read Ephesians 6:17 in the Greek text, you will dis cover that the Spirit is the Word. Hence, Christ in His resurrection is both the Spirit and the