Verse-by-Verse Biblical Exegesis
Christ Intimacy
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ATTENTION STUDENTS:

I consider the study of "Christ-Intimacy" to be the most important theological topic of the age.
It is called by other names:
  • Experiential Sanctification
  • Occupation with Christ
  • Fellowship with God
  • Pneumatology
An introduction to this subject is available below for downloading.
(the WORD document prints out better than the PDF file)

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Important points regarding Christ-intimacy
(discussed in the attached paper)

  1. The experience of the immanence of Christ is available to all believers.
  2. There are differing degrees of elevation (levels of experience) in this intimacy.
  3. There is a rich treasure of technical phrases (some new) that express this intimacy.
  4. These technical phrases in the Greek and Hebrew can be expressed pictorially.
  5. The light of the experience of Christ is entered into by the filling of the Spirit.
  6. The light of the experience of Christ is increased by learning doctrinal concepts.
  7. Both the divine sanctum and the cosmic sanctum can be represented by a sphere.
  8. There is one access gate into the divine sanctum: the filling of the Spirit.
  9. There are many access gates into the cosmic sanctum: categories of sin.
  10. How do you become filled with the Spirit? By the confession of sin (1 John 1:9).
  11. Christ-intimacy is increased by alternating doctrinal inculcation and suffering.
  12. Doctrinal inculcation and suffering for blessing require walking in the Spirit.
  13. There are permanent and temporary spheres of existence for believers.
  14. You can never lose permanent residence; you can lose temporal residence.
  15. Entrance is by the filling of the Spirit and progress is by walking in the Spirit.
  16. The spiritual life can be shown pictorially by a power sphere and gates.
  17. The spiritual life is successfully lived by utilizing ten problem-solving devices.

 

Resources

 

Paul: A Study in Social and Religious History, G. Adolf Deissmann, 1957, Harper Torchbooks, Harper & Row Publishers

 

Bible Studies: Contributions Chiefly from Papyri and Inscriptions to the History of the Language, the Literature, and the Religion of Hellenistic Judaism and Primitive Christianity, G. Adolf Deissmann, 1988, Hendrickson Publishers

 

Golden Nuggets: Wuest’s Word Studies From the Greek New Testament, Kenneth S. Wuest, 1994, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

 

Rebound & Keep Moving, Christian Suffering, Freedom Through Military Victory, Grace Apparatus Perception, Robert B. Thieme, Jr., 1974-2002, R.B. Thieme, Jr. Bible Ministries, Houston Texas

 

Syntax of New Testament Greek, James A. Brooks & Carlton L. Winbery, 1979, University Press of America

 

An Idiom Book of New Testament Greek, C.F.D. Moule, 1994, Cambridge University Press

 

Idioms of the Greek New Testament, Stanley E. Porter, 1996, Sheffield Academic Press

 

Hidden Meaning in the New Testament: New Light from the Old Greek, Ronald A. Ward, 1969, Fleming H. Revell Company

 

User's Manual for the DYNASPHERE SGEMP Computer Code, Andrew J. Woods, 1976, United States Dept of Defense: Defense Technical Information Center

 

The Irreducible Volume Character of Events: A Theory of the Elementary Particles and of Fundamental Length, B.T. Darling, 1950, Mendenhall Laboratory of Physics, Ohio State University

 

Scientific Religion or Higher Possibilities of Life and Practice Through the Operation of Natural Forces, Laurence Oliphant, 1888, Kessinger Publishing

 

Systematic Theology, Volume 6: Pneumatology, Lewis Sperry Chafer, 1993, Kregel Publications