All by the Grace of God
Dearly beloved of God, since you confessed Jesus as Lord and believed that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. You are born again of God’s spirit, and you are a child of God.
When the Lord Jesus Christ returns to gather together the Church you will be included in that wonderful gathering up to meet him in the air, whether you are living at that time, or you have fallen asleep.
Our citizenship is in the heavenly realm now. We entered the Kingdom of God by being born again of God’s spirit. Now we can anticipate the coming of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ who will transfigure these mortal bodies to be like his glorious body when he comes. It is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Our expectation and hope is eternal life, with glorious new bodies like Christ’s. In fact, we will obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The gathering together of the members of the body of Christ is only the first event that we will share with him in the ages to come.
It will take our Father the ages to come to display the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness to us in Christ.
God will put His treasures on display for His dearly beloved children as a loving Father Who shows His kids all that He has prepared and reserved for them. His loving kindness and tender mercies will be beyond anything we could ask or think!
Today we enjoy the benefits of the new birth, but at his coming we will obtain the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ as heirs together with him.
Today’s fleeting trials and pressures are not worthy to compare with the glory our Heavenly Father has reserved for us.
As we have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so we are instructed to walk in him, meaning in his accomplishments for us, and who we are in him.
We are complete in him who is the head of all principality and power.
The works he did, we can do, and greater because it was the will of God to make these things available to us in Christ.
As we study the scriptures that our Father gave us for our believing we learn that when we manifest the new birth spirit it will allow us to speak divine mysteries with God. It will edify us, and build us up spiritually.
God’s spirit will bear witness to our inner being that we are children of God, His heirs, and joint heirs with Christ. The spirit will help us to pray as God desires, and the spirit will make intercession for us according to the will of God.
God will provide us with the words to edify the Church, to comfort and exhort the members when we are assembled.
God reveals that the new birth spirit when manifested will lead us, it will give us needed information and wisdom. It will lead us and guide us. It will inform us of spiritual matters in the spiritual realm.
God will energize His spirit in us so that we can provide the gifts of healings to those in need, and do mighty works by the manifestations of believing and miracles.
We are equipped to do the works Jesus did, and even greater we can lead people into the new birth.
It is all in all of us, dearly beloved! God works in us to will and to do of His good pleasure.
We have sonship rights as God’s sons, and all the privileges that go with that standing in God’s household, and all of it is ours “in Christ” by the grace of God.
Christ did the work to make all of this possible, and we received all of it by the grace of God. What do we have that we did not receive? The Father freely gives us all things with Christ.
Our Father blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm. Rejoice, dearly beloved, rejoice; all of this is ours by the grace of God.