Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Col 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Bonhoeffer- 'In the Church men look upon one another no longer as free men, or slaves, as men or women, but as members of Christ's body. To be sure this does not mean that the slave is no longer a slave, nor the man a man. But it does mean that in the Church no one has to be considered in his special capacity, whether he be Jew or Greek, freeman or bondservant. Any such respect of persons must be excluded at all costs. We take account of each other only with regard to our membership in the Body of Christ, that is to say, that we are all one in Christ. Jew and Greek, freeman and bondservant, man and woman now stand within the fellowship as part of the community of the Body of Christ. Wherever Christians live together, conversing and dealing with one another, there is the Church, there they are in Christ. This is what transforms the whole character of their fellowship. The wife obeys her husband "in the Lord"; by serving his master the slave serves God, and the master knows that he too has a Lord in heaven (Col 3:18-4:1)
Col 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Col 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Col 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Col 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Col 3:22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
Col 3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
Col 3:24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Col 3:25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
Col 4:1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
...but they are all breather "in the flesh and in the Lord."
My thoughts-
Do we really live in this way? Do we really consider our fellow Christ followers our equals in Christ? Are we, as Christ followers, to love ALL without respect to their stations and all that people choose to take offence with?
We are, just as Christ. Christ loves the sinner, us, for we are all sinners. We cannot point to one other person and say they are unworthy. We cannot point to any one and claim any sort of superiority over them. We are all sinners, we all fall short of the glory of God. When we are in Christ, in the Body, the Church, when we are Christ's people we are all HIS and as HIS He is our all in all loving us and calling us to love one another as HE LOVES US. He doesn't want us to love others as we desire to, but to love as HE LOVES. He will give us HIS love! The Holy Spirit will live in us, Christ in us!
Col_1:27 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
The hope of glory in us!
Christ has to live in us because in and of ourselves we are nothing.
We are everything in Christ, and all who are in Christ are equal in Christ. We can love because He loves!
Christ in us! The hope of glory!
Joh_14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
The Spirit of Truth in us!
Joh_15:4 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.
Abide in Christ!
Rom_8:9 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.
Spirit of God in us!
Rom_8:11 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 by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
The Spirit of God in us!
1Co_6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
We are not our own!
Gal_4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you
Christ formed in us!
Php_2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
God working in us!
1Jn_4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Greater is HE that is IN us, than he that is in the world!
Our God is greater! And HE is in US!
We must believe!
Not worthy, never worthy, blessed by His GRACE!
Col 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Bonhoeffer- 'In the Church men look upon one another no longer as free men, or slaves, as men or women, but as members of Christ's body. To be sure this does not mean that the slave is no longer a slave, nor the man a man. But it does mean that in the Church no one has to be considered in his special capacity, whether he be Jew or Greek, freeman or bondservant. Any such respect of persons must be excluded at all costs. We take account of each other only with regard to our membership in the Body of Christ, that is to say, that we are all one in Christ. Jew and Greek, freeman and bondservant, man and woman now stand within the fellowship as part of the community of the Body of Christ. Wherever Christians live together, conversing and dealing with one another, there is the Church, there they are in Christ. This is what transforms the whole character of their fellowship. The wife obeys her husband "in the Lord"; by serving his master the slave serves God, and the master knows that he too has a Lord in heaven (Col 3:18-4:1)
Col 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Col 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Col 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Col 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Col 3:22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
Col 3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
Col 3:24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Col 3:25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
Col 4:1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
...but they are all breather "in the flesh and in the Lord."
My thoughts-
Do we really live in this way? Do we really consider our fellow Christ followers our equals in Christ? Are we, as Christ followers, to love ALL without respect to their stations and all that people choose to take offence with?
We are, just as Christ. Christ loves the sinner, us, for we are all sinners. We cannot point to one other person and say they are unworthy. We cannot point to any one and claim any sort of superiority over them. We are all sinners, we all fall short of the glory of God. When we are in Christ, in the Body, the Church, when we are Christ's people we are all HIS and as HIS He is our all in all loving us and calling us to love one another as HE LOVES US. He doesn't want us to love others as we desire to, but to love as HE LOVES. He will give us HIS love! The Holy Spirit will live in us, Christ in us!
Col_1:27 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
The hope of glory in us!
Christ has to live in us because in and of ourselves we are nothing.
We are everything in Christ, and all who are in Christ are equal in Christ. We can love because He loves!
Christ in us! The hope of glory!
Joh_14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
The Spirit of Truth in us!
Joh_15:4 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.
Abide in Christ!
Rom_8:9 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.
Spirit of God in us!
Rom_8:11 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 by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
The Spirit of God in us!
1Co_6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
We are not our own!
Gal_4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you
Christ formed in us!
Php_2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
God working in us!
1Jn_4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Greater is HE that is IN us, than he that is in the world!
Our God is greater! And HE is in US!
We must believe!
Not worthy, never worthy, blessed by His GRACE!
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