“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine…” – John 15:4 LIGHT FOR NOW: Union with Christ is not merely a doctrine to understand; it is a life to continually express. The believer bears fruit by remaining consciously dependent on Christ, theContinueContinue reading “OUR UNION WITH CHRIST (7)”
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OUR UNION WITH CHRIST (6)
“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God” – Colossians 3:3 LIGHT FOR NOW: Union with Christ gives the believer a new source and a new security. Your true life is no longer defined merely by what is visible around you; it is hidden with Christ in God. Paul makesContinueContinue reading “OUR UNION WITH CHRIST (6)”
OUR UNION WITH CHRIST (5)
“And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus” – Ephesians 2:6 LIGHT FOR NOW: Union with Christ does not only change where we came from; it changes where we stand. In Christ, the believer has been raised from spiritual death and given a new position inContinueContinue reading “OUR UNION WITH CHRIST (5)”
OUR UNION WITH CHRIST (4)
“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord” – Romans 6:11 LIGHT FOR NOW: Union with Christ changes the believer’s relationship with sin. Sin may still present temptation, but it no longer has the right to define or dominate the believer who isContinueContinue reading “OUR UNION WITH CHRIST (4)”
OUR UNION WITH CHRIST (3)
“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life” – Romans 6:4 LIGHT FOR NOW: Union with Christ is not only identification with His death; it is alsoContinueContinue reading “OUR UNION WITH CHRIST (3)”
OUR UNION WITH CHRIST (2)
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me…” – Galatians 2:20 LIGHT FOR NOW: Union with Christ means that the believer’s old life has been brought to the cross, while a new life is now lived from Christ. The Christian life is not self-improvement; it is ChristContinueContinue reading “OUR UNION WITH CHRIST (2)”
