Category: What we are in Christ

Faith is dominant. Faith must rule. Reason must take its place as a helper. The moment that reason thinks that it can assume leadership, the spiritual life of the believer begins to weaken. Feelings must be conquered. As long as feelings have any place in the council, faith is weakened.Feelings must be utterly absolutely subdued,… Continue reading Faith’s Dominion

Redemption had one objective: to restore man to unlimited fellowship with the Father. You know, in human relationships, the moment that our fellowship is broken with a loved one, we lose our liberty and freedom with them.There comes a sense of constraint. The moment that fellowship is broken with the Father, there is a sense… Continue reading Fellowship and Faith

Few of us realize that there are two kinds of knowledge in the world.They have always been hostile to each other. There is the knowledge that comes from our five senses: seeing, tasting, hearing, smelling, and feeling. This is the source of all knowledge that comes to natural man.The other kind of knowledge is a… Continue reading Faith and Reason

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.—1 Corinthians 7:23 This means do not become the bondservant or slave of the theories of men, the creeds of men. Man here means the man who walks in the senses.You crown Jesus as the Lord of your life. There is no other bondage… Continue reading We Are Free

Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness.—Romans 3:24–25 Our redemption, our Redeemer, is Christ. No one can rob you of your redemption. If you take Christ as your Savior, He becomes your redemption. You become independent of man.… Continue reading We Are Redeemed

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.—Hebrews 4:14 This Scripture can become a reality in you. The word here is not “profession” but “confession.” Christianity is called the great confession. Your confession is that you are… Continue reading What We Confess

We are His righteousness. Of all the wealth that is known to the human heart, there is nothing that equals this, that Jesus declares through the apostle Paul that we are His righteousness. I cannot grasp it. We are His righteousness. How precious we must be to Him! He once became our righteousness. He once… Continue reading The Gift of Righteousness

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… Continue reading We Are Reconciled

It was a surprise to the writer to find that the expressions “in Christ,” “in whom,” and “in Him” occur more than 130 times in the New Testament. This is the heart of the life in Him. Here is the secret of faith that conquers, faith that moves mountains.Here is the secret of the Spirit’s… Continue reading Living in Him

You have seen what He has done for you in Christ. You have seen what He has made you to be in Christ- “redeemed,” a “new creation,” “the righteousness of God,” and “the sons of God.” You are cared for by God. Now we go on to see what God has made Christ to be… Continue reading What Christ Is to Me Now

We have come into all these vast riches of grace through believing on Jesus and confessing His lordship over us. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths… Continue reading We Are Cared for in Christ

We are redeemed. We are new creations. We are the righteousness of God. All of this is wrought of God. He calls us, “My righteous ones who walk by faith.” Now we are to take our place as sons. What grace!Once, we were sons of Satan.Now, we are sons of God, by a new birth… Continue reading We Are Sons of God

We are redeemed. Satan and justice have no claims against us.God Himself in Christ satisfied the claims of justice and in Christ conquered Satan, delivering us from his authority. We are in Christ. Being in Christ, we are new creations. Being new creations, we have but one Lord—Jesus. Satan has no authority over us. We… Continue reading We Are the Righteousness of God

We are “in Christ” people. We are redeemed. We are free in Christ.Neither justice, nor Satan, has any claim on us! The sin nature that God covered in the Jew is gone. We are a new creation. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all… Continue reading We Are New Creations

Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.—Romans 3:24 Our redemption is in Christ. No one can rob us of it.It was God’s own work. He is satisfied with it. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.… Continue reading What We Are in Christ

If this was purely the dream of the man called Paul, then he could write novels or dramas such as no Dickens or Shakespeare ever approximated. But it was not the dream of Paul; it was the dream of the Father God. So as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus… Continue reading The One New Man

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.—Romans 5:1 Here we have peace with God instead of confusion from sin.This comes when we accept Christ as Savior and Lord, and receive eternal life. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and… Continue reading He Is Our Peace

This is almost contradictory to modern teaching. You would think, to hear men and women testify, that they were their own workmanship, that by the things that they have surrendered and given up or consecrated, they have become the sons and daughters of God. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good… Continue reading We Are His Workmanship

It would seem that this is the hardest truth for people to learn.All phases of Christianity where works are prominent are popular. But where we lay aside every human effort and trust the Word, and the Word alone, a storm of protest arises. Justification or the new birth must be of grace, through faith.Receiving the… Continue reading By Grace Are You Saved

We have seen the great need of a redemption that would deliver us from our union by nature with the enemy, and his dominion over us.That redemption was planned by God, wrought by Christ, and brought to us by His Spirit through His own Word. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His… Continue reading We Are Alive in Christ

“In Christ” is the place for security. “Christ in us” is the ground for joy and peace that passes understanding. There are sixteen Scriptures that speak of Christ’s ministry and work in us. I can only refer you to a few of them, but they are tremendous in their possibilities for the believer. I have… Continue reading Christ in Us

To most of us, what we were before we found Christ so dominates our minds, so rules us, that we forget what we are now in Him.We belittle our redemption and we magnify our failures. Our weakness is ever with us.We have forgotten that He is ever with us.We have the “cross” religion rather than… Continue reading What We Were; What We Are in Christ