In Christ

What does it mean to be in Christ? Let’s allow the Bible to tell us. Several churches claim that eternal life is only available within their walls. Who does Jesus say will have eternal life?

For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16 HCSB)

The Holy Spirit was to be given to those who believe in whom?

But this He said in reference to the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive … (John 7:39a NASB)

Is God the Father in Christ?

But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. (John 10:38 KJV)

Jesus repeats this elsewhere.

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own, but the Father, as He remains in Me, does His works. (John 14:10 NASB)

How important is loving Jesus and keeping His words?

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. (John 14:23 KJV)

What does remaining in Christ mean in regard to bearing spiritual fruit?

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15:5 NIV)

Does abiding or remaining in Christ mean that God will grant our wishes that are in accordance with His word?

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. (John 15:7 NKJV)

Is there peace in Christ despite worldly troubles?

I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world. (John 16:33 NLT)

Is there redemption in Christ?

… justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus (Romans 3:24 ESV)

Are we alive to God in Christ?

So you too, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. (Romans 6:11 NASB)

Is there eternal life in Christ?

The wages that sin pays are death, but God’s gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 CEB)

Is there no condemnation for those who are in Christ? Are we free from sin and death?

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. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:1-2 NKJV)

Is the love of God to be found in Christ?

For I am persuaded that not even death or life, angels or rulers, things present or things to come, hostile powers, height or depth, or any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord! (Romans 8:38-39 HCSB)

Are Christians truly one body if they are in Christ?

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. (Romans 12:5 KJV)

Are saints those made holy in Christ?

To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified [made holy] in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours (1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV)

Does life await those in Christ?

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:22 KJV)

Does God lead us to triumph in Christ?

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us reveals the fragrance of the knowledge of Him in every place. (2 Corinthians 2:14 NASB)

Does reading the Old Testament without the teachings of Christ mean that a veil covers people’s thinking? Is that veil uncovered only in Christ?

… because only in Christ is it taken away. Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. (2 Corinthians 3:13-15 NIV)

Are we a new creation in Christ?

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV)