Consider Your Union With Christ:

Holy Spirit -> Jesus -> You ->
​Christ’s body -> Father God

Think of a Babushka doll. Let the tiniest doll represent the Holy Spirit. Place it into the next doll, which represents Jesus. Place that doll in the next, which represents you. Take you and place it into the next doll, which surprisingly represents Christ’s resurrected body. Now, take Jesus’s body and put it in Father God. All are one yet distinct. That is union.

Agent:

“Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.” — (John 17:17, emphasis mine NASB95)

Goal:

“I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.” — (John 17:20–21, emphasis mine NASB95)

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Action:

“O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” — (John 17:25-26, emphasis mine NASB95)

Conclusion:

This Christian story is God’s story and His alone. We are invited to see and be joined to what He is doing from start to finish. To ‘live complete’ is to rest in His Person, will, and abilities to initiate every beginning and complete every end.

Key Verses:

Questions:

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, ‘who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” — (Revelation 1:8, NASB95)

“Then He said to me, ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.’” — (Revelation 21:6, NASB95)

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” — (Revelation 22:13, NASB95)​

“God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM’; and He said, ‘Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, “I AM has sent me to you.” ’ ” — (Exodus 3:14, NASB95)

1. Considering God’s intentions, what part do you have in it?
   
2. How can you dam God’s will?
   
3. If God intends to be all and in all, what part of all is not included?
   
4. The fire of God is His pure love. If it cannot get hotter than this, what can survive in the presence of Love?
   
5. If you really trust He is life living you, what thing is needed of you?