Christ as Sanctification
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What is sanctification, and how is it related to our union with Christ?
Discover the true meaning of sanctification and holiness in this insightful article. Learn how Christ fills us and makes us vessels of His expression.
The Profound Depths of Christ's Death: Beyond Initial Salvation
Discover the deeper implications of Christ’s death and resurrection beyond surface understanding. In His death, Christ abolished handwriting and ordinances, did away with the Old Man, died once for all to the de...
What does it mean that for “me to live is Christ”?
Learn about living as a Christian through faith in Christ with this informative article. Discover the importance of drawing on the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, and how to live more and more dependent upon Him...
Christ in Discipleship vs Christless Discipleship
The reality of the Christian life is the manifestation of Christ. Without the manifestation of Christ, there is no discipleship, no sanctification, and no reality. You have a Christless Christian.
The New Creation in Christ: A Hidden Reality Flowing as Living Water
The New Creation is not found in the flesh, but in the Spirit, and it is Hid With Christ in God. Our part in the new creation is to be renewed, which means to be satisfied with Christ by drinking the Living Water!
...One Spirit: The Believer's Union with the Lord
We are different than angels in this respect because our spirit is joined to the Lord who is the Spirit. “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spi...
Christ Our Spiritual Food and Drink: Finding Satisfaction and Rest in Him
Our desire for holiness is actually a hunger and a thirst to be satisfied with Christ. When He satisfies us, He gives us rest. “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you res...
Abide in Me
When Jesus says “Abide in Me” in John 15 we learn what it means to abide in Him in John’s 1st epistle, 1 John chapter 2. “If that which you heard from the beginning abides in you, you will also abide...
From Romans: The Newness of Life in Christ
Romans 1-8 shows us the function of the law, which was to bring us to agreement with God’s judgment on the fallenness of man, which was exhibited in the cross of Christ. We agree that we were not only forgiven ...
Finding Joy and Peace in Christ, Our Spiritual Satisfaction
We’re created to be hungry and thirsty for the riches of the good land, but if we’re not satisfied, we’ll be hungry for other things as well. What we need is our thirst to be satisfied, and the water from the rock is ...
Filled with Christ
The teaching that Christ is our satisfaction, especially in John, makes everything so simple. He’s our food. He is our drink. He’s the bread from heaven. He’s the living water. He’s the oil, an...
Christ as Sanctification
Understanding comes by seeing Christ as Sanctification and Life. That’s why the understanding of reward is really based on a proper understanding of sanctification. You have to get the source of satisfaction rig...
From Hebrews: Christ, Our Good Samaritan and High Priest
His job, as our High Priest, is to gird Himself and actually put our feet in the water and wash us. For us, this looks like coming to Him in “full assurance of faith, having our heart sprinkled from an evil cons...
Dead to Sin, Alive to God: The Believer's Union with Christ
He crucified me with Him, and His death was a death to sin once for all. “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.&#...
Our death with Christ
We need to see a deeper aspect of this truth. Not only did Christ die for us, but we died with Him! The demand has been rolled off us, and we died to sin. We died to the Law so that we could be joined to Christ in ord...
Christ is all.
According to the scriptures, Christ is our righteousness, sanctification, reward, and life. “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption...
From Hebrews: The Past is Gone—Our New Identity in Christ
Everything so far has been about the Son, but now He mentions the heirs of salvation. Who are the heirs of salvation? That is us. There has been One Perfect Offering that has “forever perfected”...
Sanctification: A Person, Not a Process
The blood of Jesus sanctified the altar. He is the real offering, and He is the real altar. He sanctified us with His blood and presented us to God in Himself. In Christ, we are on the real altar. We are those who are...
Holiness in the Christian Life: A Matter for the Physician, Not the Lawgiver
If you want to talk about holiness in the Christian life, please see it not as a matter of a servant learning to be a “better person” so he can get a “Reward” and make his “boss happier.&...
The Multifaceted Dimensions of Christ's Death: Termination and Creation
Other aspects of the Lord’s death3 Presentations in John: lamb of God taking away sin (John 1:29), Bronze Serpent – condemning sin (John 3:14;Rom 8:3-5;Rom 6:10), Grain of Wheat -releasing life (John 12:24...