Who Did What?

Dearly beloved, who is the only begotten Son of God? Who gave his life for the Church? Who did God raise from the dead to validate his work of salvation and that he is His Son? After God raised him from the dead, who did He seat at His right hand far above all principality, power, might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come? God put all things under whose feet? Who did He make both Lord and Christ?

Who did God make the head of the Church; not a trustee, not a legal officer, not one of its directors; the head over all things to the Church? Whose body are we members of? Who delivered us from the power of darkness? Who redeemed us? In whom are we complete? With whom are born-again ones identified and as he is?

Who is the one in whom God vested all judgement? Who will every knee bow before? To whom did God give the vast power of resurrection life? Who is he that every grave will come forth at his command? Who has the power to raise the dead in Christ to life and change the living ones so that they both have new bodies at his coming?

Who is King of kings and Lord of lords? Who will accomplish God’s eternal purpose that is purposed in him?

The answer to all of these questions is Jesus Christ our Lord! This is the reality, not a maybe, not a supposition, not a possibility; the reality.

He sent the spirit of truth, and we ought to believe the words it provided for us to believe. We ought to walk by the spirit which he gave his life to make available to us. It is the comforter that he promised to send and he did so in the new birth. He is the head of the body and we are his members. We ought to follow his example.

Many talk as if God left it up to them to believe what they determine to believe, to walk as they see fit, obey the thoughts they conceive in their own minds, and follow their own way. Beloved, we should not argue with the Lord Jesus Christ; we should believe him; he is the one that died for us and is the head of the body of which we are members.

II Corinthians 5:14-19 says: “Moreover, Christ’s love constrains us who thus judge: if one died for all, then all died, and he died for all so that they who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised [from the dead]. Wherefore, we henceforth know no one according to the flesh. Even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we no longer know him so. Wherefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things passed away. Behold, new things have come, and all [of the new things] are from God, Who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and Who gave us the ministry of reconciliation….” Rev. Cummins, the Working Translation

Beloved, as those who are in Christ, we ought to walk after the spirit, not after the flesh. "They who are in the flesh cannot please God, BUT you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, since the spirit of God dwells in you. If a man does not have the spirit, that is to say Christ, he is none of his."

We who have "the spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelling in them" ought to live for him who died for us.

As those who will be saved at his return, will be raised by resurrection or changed if we are yet alive, we ought to live for him who died for us.

As those who the Lord Jesus made heirs of God and joint-heirs with him, as those who will also be glorified with him, we ought to follow him and allow him to lead us by his word and by his spirit that lives in us.

Christianity is about Christ after all; it is about walking in what we received when Christ saved us and living for him, beloved.