Christ In You.

Does Christ live in you? Are you in Christ?

 

In our lives, in our worship we can get so caught up in rituals, in forms, in acts that we imagine bring us closer to Christ, that we don't realize we've come to depend upon the **things** we do to save us and not Christ in us.

 

Gal 5:6  For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. 

 

Gal_6:15  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

 

Rom 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. 

 

2Co 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 

 

(Excerpt)

'Now, the verse, "For in Jesus Christ."

Where?

Looking at Jesus Christ from the outside? going to Him as to a reservoir or a fountain and taking something out and taking it off with me outside? No.

"In Jesus Christ," in Him,  in Him, "neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love."

That is Christianity.

Anything less than that is ceremonialism in this day as well as in that day. Everything less than that is the mystery of iniquity.

 

Everything else than that is the mark of the beast.

 

And whosoever has not that living principle of the living power in his life will worship the beast and his image and thus all the world will worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." Thank God for His unspeakable Gift.'

 

A.T. Jones 1895 G.C.Sermon #26 (End of Excerpt)

 

Ceremonialism blinds us to Christ. Rituals blind us to Christ. By the time Christ began His ministry the people who were considered God's people had become completely blind to God's truth, so blind they could not recognize the Son of God. All the things of God prior to Christ's birth and ministry were given to God's people to in fact help them recognize Christ. They were blind to Christ because they'd twisted everything God gave them until their hearts were stone. All their God given commands were meant to enlightened, instead the hardness of the hearts of the people kept them in darkness. They changed things so much they became completely unrecognizable. They moved further and further from Christ and today people have done the same thing.

 

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

 

More on this tomorrow by the GRACE of God!