Category: What we are in Christ

Faith must be dominant. Faith must rule. Reason must take its place as a helper. The mind is a poor master, but a good servant. The moment that reason thinks that it can assume leadership, the spiritual life of the believer begins to weaken. There is a difference between human feelings and divine feelings. Jesus… 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 the natural man.The other kind of knowledge is… Continue reading Faith and Reason

1 Corinthians 7: 23 You were bought (legal redemption) at a price; do not become slaves of men This means do not become the bondservant or slave of the theories of men, the doctrines of men. Man, here means the man who walks in the physical senses.You crown Jesus as the Lord of your life. There… Continue reading We Are Free

Romans 3: 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed. Propitiation (hilastḗrios) to propitiate, expiate. Mercy seat, viewed as… Continue reading We Are Redeemed

Hebrews 4: 14 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. This Scripture can become a reality in you. Christianity is called the great confession. Your confession is that you are in Christ. The adversary will try to… 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. What 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… Continue reading We Are Reconciled

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 Holy Spirit guiding us into all reality. The heart craves… Continue reading Living in Him

You have seen what YHVH 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 male and female sons of God.” You are cared for by God. Now we go on to see what God has made… Continue reading What Christ Is to Me Now

We have come into all these immeasurable 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. This is grace! Once, we were sons of Satan.Now, we are sons of God, by a… 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, unless… 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

Romans 3 24 being justified (vital redemption- freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Justified (dikaióō) it means to bring out the fact that a person is righteous. Our redemption is in Christ. No one can rob us of it.It was God’s own work. YHVH is satisfied with it. Ephesians 1:… 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 came close to. But it was not the dream of Paul; it was the dream of Father God. To create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making… 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

You would think, to hear men and women testify, that they were their own workmanship, they talk about what they have surrendered and given up or consecrated, or what the Lord did for through them, but their focus is on themselves, and not on the Lord. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus… Continue reading We Are His Workmanship

Justification or the new birth must be of grace, through faith.Receiving the Holy Spirit must be purely of grace, by faith. How much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him! (Luke 11:13) It does not happen by trying to earn it by consecration and surrender, but by simple… Continue reading By Grace Are You Saved

We have seen our legal redemption that would deliver us from our union by nature with the enemy, and his dominion over us. Our old man or nature was crucified with Christ so that the mortal body that was a vehicle for sin might be rendered powerless. That redemption was planned by God, accomplished through… Continue reading We Are Alive in Christ

“In Christ” is the place for security. “Christ in us” is the basis for the fruit of the Spirit to be manifest in our live- the fruit of the Spirit is(vital redemption) love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. I found sixteen Scriptures that speak of Christ’s… 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 do not appropriate our redemption and we magnify our failures. Our weakness is ever with us.We have forgotten that Christ is within us. We have the “cross” of… Continue reading What We Were; What We Are in Christ