Part 3 - All the We Now Are and Have is “In Christ”

This Article is part of a multi-part Study Series called Identification.

All that God has done for us is in Christ. Our greatest need is to now see ourselves positionally as being “in Christ”. This takes revelation from the Holy Spirit. We may at times act otherwise but nevertheless we are hid in Christ. Our sins, past, present, and future, are not to be seen by us as carrying punishment since we are hid in Christ. Rather, God deals with us as sons, since we are positionally in the only begotten Son. As the Father, God will chasten wayward sons but not punish them. Only a judge meets out punishment as a punitive measure. We are dealt with as sons by the loving hand of the Father as a corrective measure.

Being in Christ is an objective thing – it applies to every genuine God-birthed child of God who has received God’s seed (sperma) – the “one seed, which is Christ” (Gal 3:16, cf., 1Pet 1:23).

We each stand righteous, in Christ, before God the Father.

2 Cor. 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Our life is hid in Christ.

Colossians 2:10-11 (AMP)  And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—and reach full spiritual stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority [of every angelic principality and power]. 11 In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but in a [spiritual] circumcision [performed by] Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh (the whole corrupt, carnal nature with its passions and lusts).

Thus, we are sheltered “in Christ,” and His righteousness.

Hebrews 2:10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Nothing can touch us except the Father permits it for our good. We are the many sons whom Christ has brought to glory.

1 John 5:18 (AMP) We know [absolutely] that anyone born of God does not [deliberately and knowingly] practice committing sin, but the One Who was begotten of God (Christ) carefully watches over and protects him [Christ’s divine presence within him preserves him against the evil], and the wicked one does not lay hold (get a grip) on him or touch [him].