I’m always so blessed by going over in my mind what being “In Christ means for believers. I was doing just that this very early morning and wanted to note a few thoughts, not new thoughts or concepts but oh so good. How refreshing to know we are no longer in Adam as defining who and what we are. In Adam we were dead in trespasses and sins and we have passed from death to Life. The Person of Christ now defines who and what we are. He Himself is our Life. Christ is the Head of our race, we having been created in Him. Being “In Christ” means we are spiritually alive, because He Christ is our life. To be spiritually alive means we are no longer spiritually dead as we where in Adam. In Adam we were not only spiritually dead but our minds had suffered the consequences of that spiritual death. We were dysfunctional in our thinking no matter how good we may have looked on the outside. This was because our creator had designed our minds to work with our spirits alive unto and focused on God.
Adam ,Eve and their descendants became defined by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil of which they had partaken. The fruit of that tree was DEATH. They were forbidden access to the TREE of LIFE lest they eat of that tree and live forever in their sinful out of God state and condition. When Christ died as our representative He took who we were in Adam to Himself there on the cross and we died with Him there and then He took us with Him to the grave. Christ died to sin and who we were in Adam died with Him there. But Christ rose from that grave and we rose with Him a new creation “IN CHRIST”, alive unto God as God had designed us to be. We are still in these bodies, still susceptible to sinning, still have the ‘old man’ with us but we are no longer defined by God as being “in Adam”. We are “IN CHRIST” and can experience victory over sin in our lives by reckoning ourselves to be “dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord”. Romans 610b.
I hope very soon to put up a post on what the month of December meat to us out there in the jungle.
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