We are in Him. When He rose again, he carried us in His bosom to reconcile us to the Father, to cause us to rejoice in the glory the goodness the power and love of the Father.
Spiritually we are in Him, the Great High Priest, before the Father, ‘seated in Christ in heavenly places, blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ.’ He is our right standing before God. We have this rock solid standing before God to build a relationship with this Father because of the mighty works that Christ has done to reconcile Sinners to Himself.
Not only this, when Christ rose from the dead in power and glory, His rising has given us the substance of His own pure holy, faithful and righteous Spiritual life to our hearts and Spirits. ‘Christ in us the hope of glory’, Christ, ‘who is our life’. Christ’s living power, He Himself, dwells in us – He who is in us is mighty, the Holy Spirit who is Christ Himself, energizes and empowers our spirit.
Christ’s own pure and holy and righteous life is given to us in substance, through the Holy Spirit as a gift, not in part but fully given in its full robustness. It is our appropriation of this is that is imperfect.
Hebrews 10:14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
As we appropriate and receive the life of Christ fully, its full outworking – changes our hearts and minds into His heart and mind, giving us power and desire to obey and follow Him, in the infilling of His love for us and for people in us. We thus are enabled to love Him with all our heart, soul mind and strength as we know that the Father loves us as He loves Christ.
Works of righteousness will automatically follow if we have 1) believed the gospel rightly so that guilt, shame, old identities and the past have no more hold on us 2) appropriated His love and work fully into our heart, 3) received the substance of all His working through the generous gift of the Holy Spirit. The person of the Holy Spirit is the only power there is to make all these things real in us – this is the supernatural stamp on the gospel – ‘the power of God for salvation for those who believe’, we cannot but change from ‘strength to strength’ and ‘Glory to Glory’ through this glorious gospel.
Romans 1: 16-
16For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
It is faith - the taking of these things by the heart of a man saying yes, these things are mine, the continual believing in this gospel that causes grace to abound to us in immeasurable measure.
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