In Christ- Resurrection Sunday 2015

I.                   THE OLD TESTAMENT IS OLD.

Ezekiel 36:24

²⁴ For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. ²⁵ Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. ²⁶ A new heart also will I give you, and ^fa new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to ⁱwalk in my statutes, and ye shall ^jkeep my judgments, and do them.

Hebrews 8:8-13

⁸ For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: ^{… 10} For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: ¹¹ And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. ¹² For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. ¹³ In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

II.                 THE GLORY OF THE NEW COVENANT IS CHRIST IN US.

1.   Christ in us is our hope.

Colossians 1:27

²⁷ To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

2.   He must be in you for you to be His.

Romans 8:9

⁸ So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

3.   When Christ is in us the body is dead due to sin.

Romans 8:10

¹⁰ And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

4.   The Spirit Gives Life to our Mortal Bodies.

Romans 8:11

¹¹ But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies ^xby his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

5.   The fruit of God is in us.

Galatians 5:22

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, ^klongsuffering, ^kgentleness, goodness, faith, ²³ Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

6.   His Unlimited Power is in us.

Ephesians 3:20

²⁰ Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.                

III.              WE ARE ALSO IN HIM.

Ephesians 1:4

⁴ According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Philippians 3:8-9

⁸ Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, ⁹ And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.

1.   All fullness dwells in Him.

Colossians 1:19

¹⁹ For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.

2.   We are Rooted in Him.

Colossians 2:7

⁶ As ye have therefore ^treceived Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: ⁷ Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

3.   We are Complete in Him.

Colossians 2:10

¹⁰ And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.

4.   No Condemnation to those in Him.

Romans 8:1

There is therefore now no condemnation to them, which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  

CHRIST IN US STRENGTHENS AND EMPOWERS US – WE IN CHRIST BECOMES OUR IDENTITY.

IV.             CHRIST IN US IS SETTLED AS LONG AS WE REMAIN IN FAITH.

2 Corinthians 13:5

⁵ Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

V.               WE MUST CONSCIOUSLY REMAIN IN CHRIST.

John 15:1-5

15 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ² Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. ³ Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. ⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

1 John 3:6

⁶ Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.