For in Him…

Acts 17:28 “For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.”

We are in Him, God, because God is in us. God must have entered us first because we were corpse dead without Him. Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:1 “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;” He must have entered our bodies before He quickened us. We were as lost souls like unto the earth when God created it, “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:2 Lost souls are dark inside and they are void of any good just as the earth was before the Holy Spirit entered it. God called us “dead” which means inside we are as dead and void as a corpse. When God created man, he was just a void body, void of a soul and a spirit, just as a dead corpse laying on the ground. It is when God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Gen. 2:7b. In the same manor God enters into our bodies, quickens our dead spirits and we become alive inside, He turns on the lights and causes us to see, hear, and believe the gospel, giving us life. He brings a new nature into us and begins to teach us and lead us, and giving us knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. We are never alone again, because God is in us, the whole Trinity wow lives within us. God is a Spirit there for He is like unto a breeze or a breath of air inside of us. We are now beings of God, called sons of God, our spirits are alive, our new natures are active, and God is now leading our walk on the earth. If you are saved you can feel God inside of you, you can feel Him working in your heart and causing wonderful things to develop inside of you. You will never be the same as you were because you are a new creature. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Cor. 5:17. You have a new thought process, you began to think about God and His will for you, you have a heart willing to read, study and learn God’s word. You look at the word differently, and because you are different. Your friends will notice you are acting differently, because old things are passed away, just as God said they would. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Cor. 5:17 God told us that the things of this world are passed and no longer our desires, they are in our past all things are new. “Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: (3) Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.” Ephesians 2:2 As Christians, as God’s children, we no longer live in the past, all has changed, God is now guiding our learning, thoughts, our walk, and our actions. Then we desire to serve the Lord, why, because we are fulfilling God’s ordained will for us ordained before the world was ever created. “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10. We no longer are our own to do as we please, we no longer seek pride, or boast, or are selfish, or any of those past things. Oh no, we just seek to please God and His blessed will for us. It is all because we live, move, and have our being in Christ Jesus. God will from this moment on bless you so much it will make you cry inside. What will your new life be, a church member, a singer or song leader, a prayer warrior, a teacher, a minister, a missionary, or maybe a Pastor, or maybe just a great Christian and servant of God in many ways. But whatever your life is as a Christian it is by the grace of God and because God is in us directing our new life. And when your life is over and you have spent your new life serving the very God that blessed you so much, we to can gladly say, “But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” 1 Corinthians 15:10. Amen!!!

Knowing that we are God’s Son’s

John 1:12 - 13 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: (13) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

Knowing that we are “the sons of God” is knowing that we are saved, we do not think, suppose, hope, nor do we wait till we die and see. When We “receive” Jesus Christ as our Saviour we then know that we are God’s child. This means that we have “Sonship” and that we are “Heirs” of God and “Joint-Heirs” with His True Son Jesus. God said in Eph. 1:6b “…wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” We did not make ourselves acceptable but God mad us acceptable as sons. We are not acceptable because of our own doing but because He made us acceptable in His own Son, Jesus. The only way we can “know” our sonship is that by Him making us acceptable in Jesus means that we are preserved in Jesus. God preservation of us is described in John 10:28 - 29 “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (29) My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.” This passage falls in line with Romans 8:28 – 39 when God ask, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” V. 31, and in verse 33 “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.”. Then God went on to ask in verse 34 “Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died…” and in verse 35 it is asked “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” Then Paul summed it all up in verses 38 - 39 “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Our sonship created in Jesus Christ by the very God and Father that made us such is not temporal but it is eternal. This is why God said in Eph. 4:30b “…whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Sealed by Him, the Holy Spirit, whom can lose nothing. As Sons of God, we are not our own, we do not control our life not our eternal standing in Christ. Paul wrote in Col. 3:3 “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” The word “dead” means dead to sin, dead to the things of this world, we are protected in Jesus Christ, who profoundly said in Joh. 6:39 “And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” We were “born” into the family of God as His elected children, we did not choose it, it was not a decision, it is not something we worked for, it was a gift of God by His grace. God is not going to dismiss us as His children, none of us are perfect except in Jesus Christ. We have our commends in the word of God but in reality, some will fail a little and some will fail a lot, but we are God’s and God has us protected by the blood of our Saviour. We must be reminded of the Prodigal Son, God reminds us that if we fall into sinfulness, we are still His sons, He will not just cast us away. The Blood of Jesus is all the power we need to never fall from sonship. About the worse thing a believer can do is to be disobedient to their Father, but if it happens Jesus has promised that He will lose none. We are “born of the Spirit” and that not of the flesh, therefore, we are not subject to condemning ourselves. John 3:5 “Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”