IN CHRIST
I. THE SUPERIORITY AND SIMPLICITY OF CHRIST
2 Cor 11:1-3
Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly—and indeed you do bear with me.
2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one
husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest
somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be
corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Col 1:15-18
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all
things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created
through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
Hebrews 1:1-4
God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by
the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has
appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the
brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things
by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the
right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become so much better than the angels,
as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
II. “IN CHRIST” THE WAY WE ARE MEANT TO LIVE
1. Identification -
Gal 3:28-29
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither
male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s,
then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Col 3:1-3
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where
Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on
things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Col 1:28
Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that
we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
Rom 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who
do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit
2. Motivation
Romans 6:1-4
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not
know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into
His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death,
that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of life.
Phil 3:7-11
But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet
indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ
Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as
rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own
righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ,
the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the
power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed
to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
3. Origination/Source
Rom 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of
sin and death.
Gal 5:16-18
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For
the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are
contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if
you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Eph 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with
every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
4. Activation
Eph 1:19-20
and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe,
according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when
He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly
places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every
name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
Eph 2:4-7
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by
grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit
together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He
might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ
Jesus
Luke 10:17-18
Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject
to us in Your name.” 18 And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from
heaven. 19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions,
and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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