2 Cor. 11:4, “For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or [if] ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with [him].”
How do I know which Jesus I am listening to if there could be another Jesus?
Eph. 1:19 says, “And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,” Do you have power in your life? Power to bear His fruit, power to heal, power to see miracles, the witness of a changed life? These all and others could be evidence of His salvation. Jesus said, “You’ll know a tree by its fruit.” John said, “Whoever does not love (agapeo, supernatural, godly love) does not know God, because God is love”, 1 John 4:8.
So, one’s love could be pretentious and the other sincere, but what is the motive? The motive is Him in us by His grace.
A new creature in Christ also has a new motive. The motive is living this life by and through His will in us and not to do so legally, rigidly or like an automaton, but to live life free and experience what His life has to offer which is life eternal. I don’t mean just going to heaven, but His life nature. To experience the actual life of God. Death is through sin. He has separated me from the body of this death by purging my conscience from dead works. In Christ, I do not know what the judgment or penalty of the law is anymore. I know what Christ has done. He is the Testator, Mediator and High Priest of the New Covenant. This is an eternal covenant with no end because He cannot change unlike the Aaronic priesthood who had to have a new priest after the old one died. Jesus Christ is our High Priest in the order of Melchizedek (or King of righteousness) forever. His is immutably righteous. His nature is constantly righteous. This is His priesthood. I am a partaker of this priesthood. I am a priest and part of His priesthood ushering others into the Holy of Holies free of no charge.
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