1 John 4:11-12 (ESV)
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
“No one has ever seen God.” But we have seen Christ who is God in the image of man. The Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary and Christ was born from above in the flesh of man. The Holy Spirit overshadows those who come to Him and brother of Christ is reborn from above. We begin in the mortal flesh of man to assume the image of God that is Christ. Christ came from heaven to assume the image of man to become the man Jesus.
If He abides in us, then when we look at each other we see the Father, just as those who looked at Jesus were seeing the Father. The Father abides with the Son, and the Son abides in us. We are united as one in the Holy Spirit. We have joined the Triune God as His adopted sons. Heaven and earth are thus united into the new creation.
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