Greetings Skipper--Christ is refered to as the Rock. The metamorphic part I added. I
chose metamorphic instead of igneous because it reveals more accurately the mystery
of Christ's redemption. In metaphoric rocks, the minerals retain many of their unique
characteristics while being one with the mother rock. In Christ, the Christian retains his unique personality eventhough he is recreated in his spirit into the image of Christ. The pressure and heat necessary
to form metaphoric rock serve to reflect the torment, suffering and death that Jesus
endured to form the New Creation--God in man and man in God.
Here are a few Scriptures to illustrate the point.
2Gal.
20: I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which
I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
John 15
4: Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no
more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5: I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth
much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
2Cor.5
17: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all
things are become new.
2Cor. 5
21: For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him.
Chapter: Rom.8
1: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after
the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3: For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in
the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit.
5: For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the
things of the Spirit.
6: For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7: Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither
indeed can be.
8: So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9: But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any
man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10: And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of
righteousness.
11: But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ
from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. |
