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Not I but Christ lives in me
He is the head of all principality and power. In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
Therefore, He is the Author of every benefit for His followers with an everlasting validity based on His own merits.
You become complete in Jesus as:
Know Him and feed on His Word
Accept Him as your personal Savior and Lord
Abide and grow in Him as branch in the Vine
Submit to be changed by His Spirit.
This completeness in Jesus is the Kingdom of God within you. Luke 17:21.
It is the privilege and blessing you receive as a child of God born from above.
Therefore, with strong confidence you can call God your Father.
It is a fulfillment of the disciple’s prayer:
That the Father would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:16, 19.
Furthermore, as you appropriate by faith Christ’s righteousness and His atoning sacrifice for justification of your past, you grow in Him by His grace in the values He taught and exemplified in His righteous life.
Thus your motives, desires, ideas, thoughts and actions are aligned with those of Jesus.
Moreover, you daily reveal His attributes and the fruits of the Spirit in your life.
This is your fit and title to Heaven. Whereas your justification and sanctification is found in the righteousness of Christ.
Along with this, many other amazing privileges and benefits Jesus has to offer after His second coming.
Walking on the streets of gold and communicating in person with Him and the Father. Revelation 21:21.
An eternal life without sickness, sorrows, fear, pain, death and anything else that sin brings to this world now.
Therefore you can say:
Not I but Christ lives in me, as growing unto a perfect individual, unto the measure of the stature of the foulness of Christ. Ephesians 4:13.
This is your fit and title to Heaven. Whereas your justification and sanctification is found in the righteousness of Christ.
Along with this, many other amazing privileges and benefits Jesus has to offer after His second coming.
Walking on the streets of gold and communicating in person with Him and the Father. Revelation 21:21.
An eternal life without sickness, sorrows, fear, pain, death and anything else that sin brings to this world now.
We trust Jesus and know what He has promised:
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Matthew 25:34.
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. 1 Corinthians 2:9.
For this reason no one should:
beguile you with enticing words;
spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world and not of Christ. Colossians 2:4, 5.
Questions to ponder
What assurance do we have in Christ that we too may obtain a complete victory over sin?
How do we advance into all things that pertain to life and godliness?
What eternal riches are we entitled to as heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ?
What is the ideal of a Christian character?
Bible texts
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. John 15:5.
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Titus 2:11-14.
Jesus Paid It All | Elvina M. Hall / John T. Grape
"And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
I’ll lay my trophies down,
All down at Jesus’ feet."
Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things... But with the precious blood of Christ. 1 Peter 1:18-19.
Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God... to him be glory. Revelation 1:5-6.