Text: Revelation 3:20; John 14:20,23;
15:5; 17:23
This article focuses on an aspect
of the life of a believer. A believer is one who has the unconquerable Christ
living inside him. Having accepted Christ into his heart as Lord and Saviour,
Satan flees. As light and darkness cannot stay in the same room, Christ and
Satan cannot live in the same heart. A heart that is occupied by Christ cannot
accommodate Satan and evil spirits. It is a great privilege to have Christ, the
God of mercy, love, and power living inside us. And because we have the Creator
– the One who sustains and maintains the universe – inside us, all our needs
are supplied.
Christ creates more hunger for
godliness in everyone He indwells (Matthew 5:6). He makes us heirs of God. God
accepts, possesses and loves us as His living temples (Romans 8:17). As
joint-heirs with Christ, if we ask anything according to the will of His
Father, He gives us. Christ, our Saviour has provided unlimited blessings for
all heirs of God whom He indwells. So, Christ in us is our hope of glory (Colossians
1:27).
Here are 3 more points to help you understand the unlimited blessings for believers in Christ Jesus.
1. THE MIRACLE OF CONVERSION AND CHRIST'S INCOMING
Text: Matthew 18:3
Our unlimited blessings and
inheritance in Christ start with our conversion. Without conversion, no one is
qualified to enter God's Kingdom. "Except ye be converted, and become as
little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven". But with
the coming of the King of kings into our hearts, we are made ready for heaven.
If Christ, the Lord must inhabit us, our hearts must be cleansed and converted;
and sin must not reign in our lives. Without Christ, the Scripture teaches that
no one can enter the spiritual, millennial and eternal Kingdom of God.
The miracle of conversion changes
everything about us and our character. When Zacchaeus encountered the Saviour,
his life was transformed and he made his restitution without any delay.
Conversion should produce a change of heart in us like it did in Zacchaeus.
With Christ in our hearts, we experience love, peace and joy. However, to be
saved and converted, one must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ who died for our
sins on the Cross at Calvary. After conversion, all our guilt and sin become a
thing of the past. The Lord is calling everyone to receive the miracle of
genuine conversion: a condition for Christ's
indwelling.
2. THE MEASURE OF CONSECRATION AND CHRIST'S INDWELLING
Text: 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians
3:17,20
The Lord has promised to dwell in
everyone who is converted. "…For ye are the temple of the living God; as
God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people." When Christ indwells us, good health,
wisdom, prosperity, success, peace of mind etc., become our possessions on
earth. With Christ, the power of God in us, we need not be fearful, lonely and dejected;
neither should we feel hopeless. Grounded and rooted in the love of God, we
cannot be crushed by any enemy. As a result of Christ's indwelling, every believer
has the power to overcome temptations and lead a victorious Christian life. And
this is "the power that worketh in us".
3. THE MINISTRY OF COMPASSION AND CHRIST'S INFILLING
Ephesians 3:19
Christ loves us and has provided
for our infilling. He wants us to "be filled with all the fullness of God".
In Christ there is joy; and being the Prince of Peace, He wants us to
experience peace in our lives on daily basis. No believer who has the fullness
of God can contemplate suicide. With Christ in us, we have a bright future. And
with the fullness of God in us, we have the power to possess our possessions.
*** Culled from DCLM Bible Study Series | www.deeperlifeonline.org ***
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