Just to recap: we were looking at the Results of Salvation. In the post below we looked at what God did for us through Christ.
- Redeemed us from slavery to sin
- Forgave us the penalty of sin
- Justified us before God
- Reconciled us to God
- Transferred us from the Satan's Kingdom to Christ's Kingdom of light.
- Accepted us in Christ just as we were
- Made us as new spiritual beings in Christ
- Gave us eternal life
- Gave us the Holy Spirit
- Freed us from the power of sin and our old sin nature
The full post you can read here: https://steemit.com/christian-trail/@forgodsglory/personal-spiritual-life-4-results-of-salvation
Then, Jesus has put us into a new set of relationships, which you can read about here:
https://steemit.com/forgodsglory/@hope777/personal-spiritual-life-5-results-of-salvation-put-us-into-a-new-set-of-relationships
So this post continues on the
Results of salvation - What God did for us through Jesus Christ
He granted us everything necessary for life and godliness
2 Peter 1:3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,
Ephesians 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,
Positioned us in Christ and Christ in us.
Colossians 1:27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which[d] is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Colossians 3:1-4 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
Romans 6:3-4 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 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.
Set us apart unto holy living
Romans 6:2 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
Galatians 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness
Colossians 3:5-10 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, 7 in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.
8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
Identified us with the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ that we might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:3-6 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 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.
Galatians 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.
Placed us into the church the body of Christ to serve Him and one another
1 Corinthians 12:12-20 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into[c] one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not one member but many.
15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.
Guaranteed our heavenly destiny
Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
NEXT POST: THE ROLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
Thank you for reading and studying. Hope you are blessed by these studies.
Source: Personal spiritual life, Dr. Dennis J. Mock
Scripture: New King James Version