You have been reconciled to God through Jesus Christ. You have perfect fellowship now.
Oh, the wealth that belongs to you in this new relationship! Dare to act your part!
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)
If you are His workmanship, you are satisfactory to Him.
He is pleased with you.
We have preached condemnation and sin so long that we do not know how to preach righteousness and tell people what they are in Christ.
When someone does tell them, they feel it is false teaching. They feel that anything is false teaching that does not honor sin and lift it into the place of Christ.
You are God’s new man.
Ephesians 2:15 declares He made one new man: “Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace.”
And put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. (Ephesians 4:24 ASV)
The new creation knows but one Lord. Jesus is the Lord of the new creation.
Paul gives us a graphic statement of fact:
As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. (Colossians 2:6–7)
What a glorious truth!
No longer are you a weakling. His strength is your strength.
We are so strong that we are to abound in thanksgiving. When we stop abounding in thanksgiving, we deteriorate spiritually.
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? (Psalm 27:1)
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. (Psalm 23:1)
You swing free from the old prison house of bondage, fear, want, hunger, and cold.
You are out in the freedom of God.
Hebrews 7:25 is Jesus’s present attitude toward you: “Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.”
He ever lives to make intercession for you. He is seated at the Father’s right hand.
Say it over again, “He ever lives for me.”
Just as that wife lives for that man whom she loves, so in a greater measure the Lord Jesus lives for you.
He has only one business and that is living for you.