LIVING IN CHRIST 1
1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE
In Adam humanity died to God spiritually.Adam's separation from brought a setback to man.Spiritual progress of man stopped since man was no more in union with God.The communication link between God and man was broken.So man began to work with his senses.A sense ruled man is the devils subject.The devil manipulates us through our senses....what we see,hear,feel or taste.There was no spiritual guidance.Man became totally dead spiritually and that was a dire disaster.The relationship between God and man was to be a loving relationship but Adam broke the rules.And man could no more understand the love language that God initiated.In the love nature of God which could not die for man,God started a programme of reconciliation with man.The first record of the act of faith to initiate this reconciliation was evident in Abraham.(Gen 12:1- 3)1 ¶ Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and IN THEE shall all families of the earth be blessed.
(Gen 22:18) 18 And IN THY SEED shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
(Gal 3:8)8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen THROUGH FAITH, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.So we could see that God was the first person to preach the love message to Abraham.Knowing that the seed of Abraham that that will bring reconciliation will be through faith.God initiated the faith movement through Abraham.Because man had gone to the point of no returns.Man wouldn't had come back to God it God did not initiate the act.He is loving father.He wants us back.It does not matter how far we have gone.In His undeniable love for man Christ came to fulfil the mandate of the love of the-father-looking-for-the -lost children.We have to make use of this love atmosphere and receive the love of God through Christ.
(John 3:16)16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
(Eph2;8) For by grace are ye saved THROUGH FAITH ; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
We have to receive what God has for us.Christ is life.We are not living until we recieve Christ into our lives.When are in Adam we are in sin.And we are separated from God.When we are in Christ, we have live.And sin does not have dominion over us.Because Christ is in us.We are rules by the Holy Spirit through the word not through our senses.
Prayer
Oh God i thank you for the showing us love through Christ in Jesus name.
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