There is ... now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. - Romans 8:1
We ... are one body in Christ. - Romans 12:5
As in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. - 1 Corinthians 15:22
Thanks be to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ. - 2 Corinthians 2:14
If anyone be in Christ, he is a new creation. - 2 Corinthians 5:17
In Christ Jesus, you who sometimes were far off are made nigh. - Ephesians 2:13
Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. - 2 Timothy 2:1
The New Testament tells us that we who have trusted in Christ now ARE in Christ. This is an amazing and beautiful revelation which should give us daily cheer as well as gratitude.
It means so much that we can never take it all in. God has worked a miracle of joining us to himself. He is in us and we are in him. We are as intimately linked as head and body.
Look at the specific benefits in the verses above: no condemnation, being one together, being made alive, being caused to triumph, being a new creation, being made nigh, and the resources to be strong. And there is a lot more packed into 1 Corinthians 1:30.
These explicit benefits, rich as they are, only scratch the surface of what is ours if we are “in Christ,” with Christ in us. For if we are in him, whatever he gets, we get; wherever he goes, we go; and whatever he has, we have.
For example: since he is the head and we are one body, wherever we are he is. This is made explicit in his great promise found at the end of Matthew: “Lo, I am with you always,” and in Ephesians 2:6 where we are told that God has “raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”
But there’s more. Whatever belongs to Christ, the head, belongs to us also if we are “in Christ.” In writing to the Galatians Paul makes this point at the end of a discussion of all the promises made to Abraham. They were made to Abraham “and his seed,” Paul points out, and this “seed” is Christ.
Then at the very end of the third chapter comes the awesome logical conclusion: “Ye are all one in Christ Jesus; and if ye are Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
Let it sink in. Let it warm you from head to toes. God has reached out in love to make us one with himself!
Meditate:
Galatians 3:28,29; John 17:20,21
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