Part 13 - God's D N A

The Lord Jesus , as the true Son of God, was born complete with the Father's DNA - the Divine Nature from Above. The true believer in Christ now shares that same DNA, that same completeness: "For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ." (Colossians 2: 9,10) What a birthright is ours in Him ! Not only do we escape from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world, but we also become partakers of the divine nature.

It was God's original intention that by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, every human being should fully experience His Life and become a participant in the divine nature. He then controls your mind, your emotions, and your will. By all that you do and say and are, His Life and likeness are expressed through you. People around you become aware of the fact, though they may not understand it, that by something God Himself has done, you have become a partaker of all that He is.

There is something frighteningly authoritative about the look of quiet, unflinching confidence upon the face of someone who knows that he or she is right and at peace with God. The face of Stephen, the first martyr, conveyed this look when the rulers of Jerusalem falsely brought him to trial:"All who sat on the council, looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as the face of an angel." (Acts 6:15) He denounced their guilt without any suggestion of apology, without any hint of fear, and they were cut to the heart.

It was this look upon the face of the Lord Jesus which, perhaps more than anything else, frightened Herod and Pontius Pilate on that day when He stood trial before them. A bad conscience is always uneasy in the presence of truth. You may shoot truth between the eyes when it looks you quietly in the face, but it will not be truth which falls victim to your bullet. It was not truth that lay bleeding and dying on the day Stephen was stoned to death; nor was it truth that hung upon a cross to be buried in a tomb, where sin was condemned and Satan himself judged and defeated.

That is why you can now be at peace with God, enjoying a peace that gives you that sense of quiet, unflinching confidence that comes only from Him, through His DNA within you thanks to an exchanged life.

In Christ, you too are filled with the Godhead - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - and reach full spiritual stature.