Are you partakers of Christ?
We are baptized to become one body with Christ.
Romans 6 and 1 Corinthians 12 speak of baptism.
Christ was crucified for our sins, was raised for our righteousness, ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God. He sent the Spirit of truth within us.
This Spirit of truth is the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of life.
We have Christ, the Son of God eternal life.
We come to know God's word through the revelation of the Holy Spirit.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But through the atoning grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we are justified freely, have peace with God, and come into the glory of God.
Romans 5 tells us that through Adam sin entered the world, and death through sin, and in this way death come to all men, because all sinned. Death reigned.
But those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness through Jesus Christ reign in life.
God has brought us from death to life through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Even though we were dead in trespasses and sins in Adam, God made us alive with Christ, and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Hallelujah! John 11:25-26, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
“Christ, the resurrection and the life, dwells in you through the Holy Spirit.” The Lord asks us, “Do you believe this?”
Hallelujah!
Romans 6 tells us what our relationship is to Christ in Christ Jesus.
For if all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus have been united with him in a death like his, much more have we been united with him in a resurrection like his.
So then, the death of Jesus Christ was a death to sin once for all; but the life he lives is a life to God. So we also, being dead to sin, are alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, we are united with the body of Christ.
We are one body and one spirit with Christ.
Amen.
So Christ is our husband, one body. Christ gives us living water incessantly. He is the husband of the spring.
Only when Christ becomes our water husband can we worship God in spirit and truth. Hallelujah!
Therefore, in John 15, he is likened to the true vine and we to his branches.
Because we are in Christ and Christ is in us, the living water flowing from the throne flows into us through Christ.
At that time, the joy of the Lord is fully revealed within us.
This is what happens after God has sent the Spirit of truth into us, through Christ's death and resurrection.
The work of the Holy Spirit is not limited to external signs and miracles, but comes within us and becomes the truth and life.
Therefore, He is the Spirit of truth, the Spirit of life in us.
We praise, saying, "The Holy Spirit has come, the Holy Spirit has come, the Holy Spirit sent by my Lord has come. Spread this good news to the whole world, the Holy Spirit has come."
We receive salvation by believing in the grace of the Lord's redemption and being baptized.
We become one body with Christ, the Son, and come before God the Father as the bride of Christ. The Son is in the Father, we are in the Son, and the Son is in us, then the Son becomes our righteousness, holiness, goodness, and redemption.
The truth is revealed in us, so we obtain God's righteousness by faith, and the Holy Spirit works in us, so the glory of the Lord shines within us.
God is marching.
Glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, hallelujah.
What is within us?
Sin and death in Adam, or righteousness and life in Christ?
When Israel heard God's word in the wilderness, their hearts were hardened and they could not enter his rest. Their unbelieving, wicked hearts separated them from God's life.
When we hear the voice of the Son, we must open the door of our hearts and receive him within us. Only then can the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set us free from the law of sin and death.
We reign in life through Jesus Christ.
A feast begins where Christ eats with us and we eat with Him. Joy springs up. We enter his rest. Hallelujah.
We enjoy not the rest from labor of the law, but the rest in Christ.
We are partakers of Christ.
As those who are partaker of a heavenly calling, we are God's house, a temple overflowing with heavenly glory and heavenly joy.
Written by Missionary SOOKYUNG CHUNG
TO GOD BE THE GLORY