Indivisibly United
Dearly beloved, from our calling to our glorification with Christ, our Father indivisibly united us with Christ in his accomplishments. We are joint members of his body and joint heirs with him and joint partakers of what was promised in Christ Jesus by the gospel.
God is the Giver, and He will freely give us all things with Christ.
Today we have the down payment of the spirit of sonship given to us as a pledge against the full payment of our inheritance, which we will receive when Christ returns for the Church.
All that we now are and all that we will be at his return is in association, in union or identification with Christ.
Christ accomplished all that God desired, willed, and planned for the Church. Nothing can improve on it. By the grace of God, He determined that we stand before Him in Christ Jesus, in his accomplishments.
Jesus Christ did all the work for these gains and we fully share in them with him by God’s grace. We stand in his accomplishments.
The life we now live, we live united with Christ in his accomplishments. We stand before God in Christ, as members of his body. We fully share with him in all that he achieved by his suffering, death, burial, resurrection, ascension and seating in the heavenlies in glory.
Since God grafted us into the likeness of his death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection. We stand on resurrection ground with Christ.
We are seated in the presence of God with Christ. We are the righteousness of God in Christ. Christ presented us as holy and without blame to the Father. We are joint-heirs with Christ. We stand in his accomplishments; as he is!
Our identification with Christ in this life is wonderful indeed, but we have only experienced the birth. Our identification with Christ will not be complete until we are conformed to be like him.
When he returns, we will come unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. He will transform our humiliated bodies to have the same form as his glorious body according to the energizing by which he is able to subordinate all things to himself.
We are indivisibly united with Christ, beloved, now and for all times. Without him we are nothing; with him we can do all things in Christ who strengthens us.
Walk in this newness of life in Christ Jesus our Lord as a dead man raised to life again. Walk with Him who called you to obtain the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.