We look in the mirror, and see Christ in us. To see ourselves as in Christ, to have such a positive view of ourselves, that the essential ‘me’ is actually the sinless Son of God, is almost asking too much of men and women living with all the dysfunction and low self-worth that seems part of the human condition.Īnd so this wonderful word for “impute” occurs again in a wonderful, truly wonderful passage of assurance: “Ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ…not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves but our sufficiency is of God” because our face / image is being changed into His image, “even as by the spirit of the Lord” (2 Cor. And if we suffer with Him, we will also reign with Him (Rom. 8:36) with Paul, we “die daily”, because we are in Christ. the Lord Jesus, for whose sake we are killed all the day long in the sharing of His sufferings (Rom. For we are to account / impute ourselves as the sheep for the slaughter, i.e. It was us who hung with Him there, and who hang with Him still in the tribulations of life. It must radically affect our self-perception and self understanding. Ourselves by our attitude to ourselves, in that we allow His death We are to impute that we are justified by faith We are to search through our lives and perceive ourselvesĪs in Christ, as men and women who don’t sin because we are in Christ. Strictly the Greek word means “to take an inventory” 4:3,4,5,6,8,9- indeed, the word occurs in almost every verse Normally translated “impute”, in the context of imputing righteousness Who really makes the effort to believe his or her ‘first principleĭoctrine’, that their the Son of God was truly the representative is miraculously reduced- for the sensitive reader The inevitable gap between the reader and the person being described Of His crucifixion are written so uniquely supreme above all literature, This is because our essential person is Him,Ĭrucified, covered in blood and spittle. We are exhorted to both judge / diakrino ourselves andĪlso diakrino / discern the body and person of Jesus Same as fruitful self-perception / self-examination. We have probably all realized that mere introspection isn’t necessarily the Finally, he had a properly functioning ‘conscience’, a co-perception. He had heard words, but, he realized, he’d not properly ‘seen’ or perceived. He says that he had only heard of God by the ear but only now, he says, “mine eye seeth thee” (Job 42:5).

But later, he comes to see a difference between his eye and his ear. He was so sure that what he heard was what he saw he was sure that his perceptions were operating correctly. Job before his ‘conversion’ paralleled his eye and his ear: “Mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it” (Job 13:1). But his co-perception, his conscience, his real self, handles all that, and sees the girl’s beauty for just simply what it is- beauty. His human perception signals certain things to his brain- to lust, covet, etc. Our conscience, our co-perception, our real self, makes sense of the human perceptions and interprets them in a spiritual way. What we know and perceive humanly, is in harmony with we spiritually perceive.

The conscience that is cleansed in Christ, that is at peace, will be a conscience that keeps those two perceptions, of the real self and of the persona, in harmony. It implies that there are two types of perception within the believer- human perception, and spiritual self perception. The Greek word translated “conscience”, sun-eidesis, means literally a co-perception.

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