I\u2019m always so blessed by going over in my mind what being \u201cIn 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. \u00a0How refreshing to know we are no longer in Adam as defining who and what we are. \u00a0In Adam we were dead in trespasses and sins and we have passed from death to Life. \u00a0The Person of Christ now defines who and what we are. \u00a0He Himself is our Life. \u00a0Christ is the Head of our race, we having been created in Him. \u00a0Being \u201cIn Christ\u201d means we are spiritually alive, because He Christ is our life. \u00a0To 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. \u00a0We 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.<\/p>\n
Adam ,Eve and their descendants became defined by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil of which they had partaken. \u00a0The fruit of that tree was DEATH. \u00a0They 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. \u00a0When 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. \u00a0Christ died to sin and \u00a0who we were in Adam died with Him there. \u00a0But Christ rose from that grave and we rose with Him a new creation \u201cIN CHRIST\u201d, alive unto God as God had designed us to be. \u00a0We are still in these bodies, still susceptible to sinning, still have the \u2018old man\u2019 with us but we are no longer defined by God as being \u201cin Adam\u201d. \u00a0We are \u201cIN CHRIST\u201d and can experience victory over sin in our lives by reckoning ourselves to be \u201cdead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord\u201d. Romans 610b.<\/p>\n
I hope very soon to put up a post on what the month of December meat to us out there in the jungle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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