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When we grasp the purpose for our being, we will become rooted and
established as God’s chosen elect. We become rooted and established in
Him as our solid foundation. Here is a great reality that stands at the center
of our life. Jesus Christ lives by his Spirit in the soul of every true believer.
His prayer expresses this, “I in them”. Think of the mind of Jesus settled in
your conscience, in your thoughts, or even in your memories. You would be
an entirely different person. Your experiences would be different, your
awakening would be to a spiritual realm, your rest would be in God-given
hope, dreams, desires. Your active faith of living the blessed life that God
intended for you will be your unique mix of divinity and humanity. It would be
your full expression of yourself as Jesus in you. At all times your focus would
be shifted to his truth. As with Christ in us we discern the approach of every
trial and temptation. The presence of Christ in us, the consideration of Christ
toward us, the strength of Christ in us, that is what gets us through. He is our
hope of glory. The assurance that we will be glorified. It is this mystery that
says he in us that we may be made perfect in him.
Colossians 1:27, 28
And it is Christ in us by which we are the temple of God, the dwelling place
for His truth. The degree to which God and Jesus Christ dwell in us depends
on the extent to which we follow the leading of God’s Spirit and use its power.
When the Holy Spirit is in us, it empowers us to actually become the likeness
of God the Father and Jesus Christ in nature, character, spirit, attitudes,
approach and love. Christ in us is under our will and control, not his. God
wants us to choose for ourselves to live as Jesus lived. He doesn’t force us
to do it. This involves a humble, earnest seeking to become like Jesus Christ,
so his life becomes our life. He becomes formed in us.
II Corinthians 6:16
Galatians 4:19
We in Christ is where we are placed according to God’s purpose. Our
position is in Christ. In the fullness of time God has this place for us. If we in
Christ is where we are placed according to God’s purpose, then Christ in us
is where he is placed according to God’s purpose. If all that is Christ’s
belongs to us when we are in him, then all that is ours belongs to him when
he is in us.
Ephesians 1:10; 2:5, 6
There is a mystery that is made manifest to us. Being born again, we are not
only moved to a new place in Christ as a new creature, but we are changed
from the inside out as we are in Christ. Christ is the covenant and we being
in him places us in agreement with God. We live by our faith in Christ. Christ
is the end of the law and we in Christ is us in the law. We must come to this
knowledge, and we are to make all men see it. "In Christ" is a positional term.
It means to be in Christ before God. Being in Christ is likened to being taken
in the spiritual reality to the presence of God.
Romans 8:1, 38, 39
This place is secured for us through faith in Jesus. And Christ in us is
understandably his character, his power to overcome, his love, his wisdom.
It is the capacity to have his principled features formed and displayed in us.
With Christ in us comes righteousness, sanctification, justification,
redemption, and the ministry of reconciliation. If Christ be in us and we in him
then our relationship with all others is to seek justly, rightly, and faithfully for
the Christ that is in them. Christ in us implies that the new kingdom to which
we now belong is now resident within us. And we are his character of display
having a new frame of mind. It is a wonderful blessing for us to be in Christ
but until Christ is found in us, the blessings of the kingdom will elude us. It is
the level to which Christ is formed in us that determines the degree of liberty
we enjoy in our outward life. Again, the level of development of Christ in us
is solely dependent on us as an individual. It is our responsibility to let him
have absolute pre-eminence by habitually feeding on God’s word and
submitting ourself to it. We must embrace and nurture the word of God with
a Christ consciousness within us and our outward manifestation of God’s
glory will be noticeable and indisputable. Christ is in us because the Holy
Spirit begets in us a new life.
We in Christ is as having clothed ourselves with Christ in his righteousness.
Galatians 3:26-28
We are right where our faith is...in Christ. We were in him on the cross where
he paid for all our sin so that now, being hidden in Christ, God can look upon
us, for He sees Jesus. Spiritually, we are now really alive for the first time.
The intimacy that our hearts crave for our Lord Jesus and our Father God
can now be satisfied. We become the righteousness of God in Him.
II Corinthians 5:21
We are in Him. He is in us. His word abides in us. We are his Righteousness.
We are his Life. We can do his works now. That is why he says, “greater
things than these shall ye do”.
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