Thursday, May 3, 2012
Christophobia: Two Questions
Christophobia: Two Questions: If there is a God who IS love and is good, why all the pain and horror? And... Why are Christians so hateful? The second question is easy...
JOINT HEIRS IN HIM!!!
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, --Ephesians 1:11a
To My Beautiful Daughters in Him,
The basis for our inheritance is in Him...in Jesus, God's Son. Apart from Jesus Christ the only eternal thing that I can receive is condemnation and eternal punishment. There is no other name under heaven, Paul tells us in the Book of Acts, by which men can be saved. In Him, however, I am a co-heir! All the spiritual blessings in the heavenlies are mine. I am a joint heir with Christ...adopted by God as His daughter. All things belong to me and I belong to Christ...and Christ belongs to God. Romans 8:17 says:
and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,
I am guaranteed possession of everything He possesses. There is no way I can even begin to wrap my tiny brain around that... Peter tells me that His divine power has granted to me everything pertaining to life and godliness. Everything...nothing missing and has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises....all the promises of God, in Him, are yes!
For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.--2nd Corinthians 1:20
We are promised it all in Him. We are identified with Christ and as such our lives should look like lives lived through Him and for Him. Romans 6:3-11 says this: John MacArthur calls it the believers spiritual biography...I love that!
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I do not pretend to understand these verses...how this occurs...but at salvation I was nailed to the cross at Calvary spiritually with my Jesus and have been buried and raised with Him. Jesus did not just do this for me...He did it with me. When He appears I will be like Him...finally conformed to image of His Son. For me now, like Paul, to live is Christ. I am one spirit with Him. I am joined with Him....identified with Him. The way I live should be then identified with how He lived. I am to love as He loved, give as He gave, care as He cared...are you getting the picture. I am to look out for the interests of others...Like my Jesus I am to lose my life for others. My labor in Him is never in vain...His mercy is mine. I do not lose heart even though my outward man is perishing my inward man is being renewed daily and will one day be glorified with my God in heaven.
Praying that you, my beloved daughters...and me, also, would see these spiritual truths plainly in a very daily and practical way in order that we would not grow weary in doing good...knowing the He does not forget our labor of love...knowing that in due season we will reap. We are blessed in His Son!
Love
Mom
We are promised it all in Him. We are identified with Christ and as such our lives should look like lives lived through Him and for Him. Romans 6:3-11 says this: John MacArthur calls it the believers spiritual biography...I love that!
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I do not pretend to understand these verses...how this occurs...but at salvation I was nailed to the cross at Calvary spiritually with my Jesus and have been buried and raised with Him. Jesus did not just do this for me...He did it with me. When He appears I will be like Him...finally conformed to image of His Son. For me now, like Paul, to live is Christ. I am one spirit with Him. I am joined with Him....identified with Him. The way I live should be then identified with how He lived. I am to love as He loved, give as He gave, care as He cared...are you getting the picture. I am to look out for the interests of others...Like my Jesus I am to lose my life for others. My labor in Him is never in vain...His mercy is mine. I do not lose heart even though my outward man is perishing my inward man is being renewed daily and will one day be glorified with my God in heaven.
Praying that you, my beloved daughters...and me, also, would see these spiritual truths plainly in a very daily and practical way in order that we would not grow weary in doing good...knowing the He does not forget our labor of love...knowing that in due season we will reap. We are blessed in His Son!
Love
Mom
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