Ephesians 2:18
18 For [hoti] through [dia] him [autos] we [echo] both [amphoteros] have [echo] access [prosagoge] by [en] one [heis] Spirit [pneuma] unto [pros] the Father. [pater] KJV-Interlinear
18 for
through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. NASB
Through Christ, who is
the only means of access to God, then all people have access to the Father, or
better stated the potential access, so long as they approach the Father,
through Christ, but in one spirit.
The spirit is the one and
single spirit, which is a reference to the Holy Spirit.
Access, means to have an
introduction, to approach, to receive an audience with.
The Father is the
ultimate contact within the deity of God.
God is the highest of living
beings. He is the ultimate sovereign and
authority in all of existence. He
possesses all power, and ability, but at the same time, is perfect in
righteousness and perfect in justice. He
is incapable of sinning, and able to not sin.
God has perfect self-control, without error. He sees all, knows all, and nothing gets past
him.
To be in association with
God, is the ultimate opportunity that exists.
All religion seeks to be
as God, or to be equal with God, such that man and God can meet on equal terms.
However, man is not equal
and never will be. Man, only in his arrogance presumes that he has that
capability, and so man invents his own tower or stairway, to heaven, to meet
God and to prove God wrong. Man invents
his own rules for life, despite his lack of information about life.
The greatest part of
life, exists in the spiritual world and one cannot know about that region
unless one enters into it. And there is
but one way to enter into the spiritual world and that is through Christ, by
means of the Holy Spirit.
This verse clarifies this
very important principle. You cannot
approach God on your own terms. You cannot
approach God based on emotion or sincerity or loud or long prayers. You cannot approach God by any other means
other than through Christ and by the Holy Spirit.
By Christ, requires
salvation by means of faith in Christ.
Christ is the single door, through which you may enter and approach God.
The Holy Spirit is the power or the mechanism through which your spiritual life
functions.
You must be under the
power of the Holy Spirit in order for your spiritual life to function. That power cannot be detected, nor measured,
nor felt, nor experienced in any way. The
spiritual world is not accessible by means of the physical world. The only method of gaining the power and
control of the Holy Spirit, is through confession of your sins to the
Father. This is called being in
fellowship, 1 Jn. 1.
Committing a sin causes
you to lose your fellowship status.
Confession returns you into your fellowship status.
Therefore, all religions,
all other approaches, all inventions of man for approaching God, are false and
lies.
There is only one means of
access to God and that is through Christ, by means of the Holy Spirit.
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