From: emery@tc.fluke.COM (John Emery)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: The riches of Christ
Date: 20 Dec 92 23:20:56 GMT
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA


               EVERYTHING FROM THE FATHER IS GIVEN THROUGH THE SON


When that young child was born whom the Magi worshipped, whom angels
praised, whom the shepherds marveled at, not only was just a King born,
but the answer to the human condition.  For our Lord Jesus is God's
answer to every spiritual need.  Everthing we need from the Father is
found in His Son.

If we seek life from the Father, He points us to His Son:

1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this
life is in his Son. (NIV)

If we seek the love of God, we find that it is all within the Son:

Romans 8:38-39 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither
angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39
neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to
separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (NIV)

If we need the assurance of being at peace with our Creator,  we find
that it is in Jesus:

Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, (NIV)

Ephesians 2:14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has
destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, (NIV)

Our God has chosen to give every one of His blessings through His Son:

Ephesians 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
(NIV)

Whatever we come to the Father for, His answer is always His Son.
When we cry out to God for victory over sin, His solution is to get
us out of the way and let His Son live through us:

1 John 4:9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only
Son into the world that we might live through him. (NIV)

Galatians 2:20-21 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live,
but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the
Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.  21 I do not set aside the
grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ
died for nothing!" (NIV)

After the Holy Spirit had been poured out in power upon the apostles
upon the ascension of our Lord, here is their testimony:

Acts 2:33 Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father
the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. (NIV)

The Holy Spirit Himself is given to the Son to give to us.  Thus we cry
out to our Father "Fill me with your Spirit" and once again He points us
to Jesus through whom comes everything from the Father.

Yes, it is Jesus who is our fulfillment.  Anything we are lacking is found
in our Lord Jesus:

Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and
power: (KJV)

Jesus, Himself, is our treasure, for we have been made rich by finding Him
or rather by being found by Him:

Eph 3:8 Although I am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was
given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, (NIV)

Knowing our Lord is to find an unsearchable treasure.

God bless,

John
-- 
John Emery		"You say we've risen to a new age of light.
emery@tc.fluke.COM       You're telling me what used to be wrong
			 is now right."