The
Spiritual Unity of Believers in Our Lord Jesus Christ
[1]
There is a “daily-ness” to our walk with Christ,
we have to choose to abide in Christ.
It’s not something that happens automatically, and we can
lose connection with our head (
Col
2:19
and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body,
nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with
the increase that is from God.).
Not a loss of salvation, but a loss of that intimate
connection to the Vine through which we receive His life.
Every morning we bring our lives fully back to Christ and
under His Lordship. It’s
important that we consecrate our whole being to Christ – our
body (Ro 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.), our soul
(Lu 10:27 So he answered and said," 'You shall love the LORD
your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your
strength, and with all your mind,' and 'your neighbor as
yourself.'") and your spirit (1Co
6:17
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.)
[2]
1Jo 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
[3]
Eph 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame
before Him in love
[4]
Ro 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
[5]
By entering into the work of Christ daily, we
appropriate in a fresh way all He has already done for us.
After all, Christ told us to take up our cross daily (Lu
9:23 Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come
after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and
follow Me.)
[6]
1Co
1:30
But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from
God--and righteousness and sanctification and redemption--
[7]
Col 2:13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and
the uncircumcision of your flesh, He
has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all
trespasses
[8]
2Co
5:21
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might
become the righteousness of God in Him.
[9]
Col 2:10 and you are complete in Him, who is the
head of all principality and power.
[10]
Col 2:14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was
against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of
the way, having nailed it to the cross.
[11]
Col 3:1 If then you were raised with
Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is,
sitting at the right hand of God.
[12]
Eph 2:6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the
heavenly places in Christ Jesus
[13] Lu 10:19 "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.
[14] Eph 1:13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the
word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having
believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise
[15]
Mt 20:28 "just as the Son of Man did not come to be served,
but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
[16]
Col 2:11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision
made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the
flesh, by the circumcision of Christ
[17] Ro 2:29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and
circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the
letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.
[18]
Col 2:15 Having disarmed principalities
and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over
them in it.
[19]
Ro 6:11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to
sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
[20]
Ga 6:14 But God forbid
that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
[21]
Col 1:13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and
conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love
[22]
Eph 4:22-24 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the
old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and
be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and
that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in
true righteousness and holiness.
[23]
Ro 6:11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to
sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
[24]
Ga 2:20 "I have been crucified
with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me;
and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the
Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
[25]
Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive
together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)
[26] Ro 5:17 For if by the one man's offense death reigned
through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace
and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the
One, Jesus Christ.)
[27]
Ro 6:4 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.
[28]
Col 3:4 When Christ who is our life
appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
[29]
Php 4:13 I
can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
[30]
Joh 12:31-32 "Now is the judgment
of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. "And
I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself."
[31]
Mt 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All
authority has been given to Me in
heaven and on earth.”
[32]
Col 2:10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all
principality and power.
[33]
1Jo 4:4 You are of God, little
children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is
greater than he who is in the world.
[34]
Lu 10:19 "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.
[35]
Joh 14:16 "And I will pray the
Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide
with you forever-- 17
"the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because
it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells
with you and will be in you.
[36]
Joh 15:26 "But when the Helper
comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of
truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
[37]
Joh 16:13 "However, when He, the
Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for
He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He
will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
[38]
Ga 5:25 If
we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
[39]
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
[40]
Eph 4:8 Therefore He says: "When He ascended on high, He led
captivity captive, And gave gifts to men."
[41]
Eph 6:9 And you, masters, do the same
things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own
Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.
10
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of
His might.
11
Put on the whole armor of God, that you
may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness
of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly
places.
13
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that
you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all,
to stand.
14
Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put
on the breastplate of righteousness,
15
and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of
peace;
16
above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able
to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God;
18
praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit,
being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication
for all the saints--
[42]
Heb 1:12 Like a cloak You will fold
them up, And they will be changed. But You
are the same, And Your years will not fail."
13
But to which of the angels has He ever said: "Sit at My right
hand, Till I make Your enemies Your
footstool"?
14
Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for
those who will inherit salvation?
[43]
2Co 1:8 For we do not want you to be
ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in
Asia
: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we
despaired even of life.
9
Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not
trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,
10
who delivered us from so great a death, and does
deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us,
11
you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be
given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us
through many.
2Co
1:12 For our boasting is this: the
testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the
world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom
but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.