Children, Young Men and Fathers

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So do I make the point clear? The priest-intercessor is the Bible description of all of us born of the Intercessory-Spirit. The intercession is the driving of the Spirit in us/ as us which simply immerses us in the necessity of others having the Christ we have in salvation and fullness.

In our earlier “little children” stage, there is the drive, and we respond to it with a mixture of much “fleshly” energy, which is God using our soul-body energies en route to our learning the ways of operations by Spirit-leadership. This is like Moses starting off his rescue of his enslaved brethren by killing the Egyptian mistreating an Israelite, a vast contrast to Moses 40 years later overcoming Pharaoh by the word-of-faith activities which produced the plagues and the release of the nation from its captivity. We then go through the process of our own inner settling into the “young man” stage of Galatians 2:20, where we become “established, strengthened, settled” (1 Pet. 5:10). And now we are consciously in our “father'” stage, where we have, like Paul, “won Christ,” and thus the highest privilege of being leveled with Him as co-saviors (1 Cor. 9:22), co-commissioned, co-laborers, co-sulferers, co-diers, co-risers in co-resurrection, which with us brings “many sons to glory.”