Monday, November 13, 2006

Through Christ We Have Everything That Jesus Has

That being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." Titus 3:7

We are saved by God’s mercy and His Holy Spirit has renewed us. God has Paul write in Romans 6 that our old self has been crucified with Christ. In Galatians Paul writes that we are crucified with Christ, yet nevertheless we live, because it is now Christ living within us. So of course we are justified, how could we be anything but justifed? If we are alive and one with Christ, how could we be unjustified? Jesus isn’t, and we are now alive with Him and united with Him, so neither are we! We are filled with the fullness of God and we are abundantly supplied with and one with His Holy Spirit and that means something! It passes knowledge, it gives strength, ability, it grounds us and settles us on the Truth and the Truth sets us free!

We are not only supplied with this abundance of Christ, we are heirs with Jesus. God looks at you and I and He sees us in the exact same way that He sees Jesus, which is One with Him! How many times have we studied that God loves us exactly as He loves Jesus, John 17:23?

When God sent Jesus to this world, He fully equipped Him to complete the task, and He has done exactly the same for us. We lack absolutely nothing needed to be as Jesus is on this earth. We are heirs and that means if Jesus has it, so do we. “Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He [the Spirit] will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you.” John 16:15 Amplified

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