Each list or chart included in the next FIVE WEEKS will help you understand how Father-God regards you as a saint in Christ Jesus. They will help you focus on what Father-God sent Jesus to accomplish for you through the finished work of His divine exchange with you. They will inspire you worship Him with a grateful heart.
WEEK ONE: What Has Happened Spiritually to Every Believer Reborn In Christ
If you have been reborn of God by grace through faith, according to Romans 10:9-13, you can agree with God about what is now true for you! This is the Gospel of Christ Jesus revealed directly to Paul.
I have been spiritually circumcised (my old, unregenerate nature has been permanently removed) (Colossians 2:11).
I died with Christ and, therefore, I died to the power of my old, sin-nature’s rule on my life (Romans 6:1-6 and Colossians 3:3).
I have been justified (completely forgiven and made righteous in Christ) (Romans 5:1).
I have been forgiven of all my sins and reconciled to God (2 Corinthians 5:18-19).
I have been buried, raised and made alive with Christ (Colossians 2:12-13 & Ephesians 2:5.)
I have been raised up with Christ (Colossians 3:1).
I have been put into Christ Jesus by Father-God’s own doing (1 Corinthians 1:30).
Since I have died, I no longer live for myself, but for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:14-15).
Consequently, I am born of God (2 Corinthians 5:18).
Since I have been bought with a price I am not my own. I now belong to God. My body is now a temple of the Holy Spirit who lives within me (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
I have been redeemed and (totally) forgiven of all my sins (Colossians 1:14 and 2:13-14,
1 John 2:2 and especially 2 Corinthians 5 18-19).
I have been made the righteousness of God Himself in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21).
I have been redeemed from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:13).
I am free forever from condemnation (from God) (Romans 8:1).
My life is now hidden with Christ in God. Christ is now my life (Colossians 3:3).
Because I am sanctified and am one with the Sanctifier (Christ Jesus), He is not ashamed to call me brother (Hebrews 2:11).
I have been made complete (perfect) in Christ (Colossians 2:10 and Hebrews 10:14).
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6).
I have been saved and called(set apart), according to God’s doing (2 Timothy 1:9, Titus 3:5).
I am now a recipient of His lavish grace (Ephesians 1:8).
I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1:3).
I have been given a Spirit of power, love, and self-control (discipline, sound mind) (2 Timothy 1:7).
I have been given the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16).
I have been given exceedingly great and precious promises by God by which I am a partaker of God’s divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).
I have been established, anointed, and sealed by God to Christ and have been given the Holy Spirit as a pledge (a deposit/down payment) guaranteeing my inheritance to come (2 Corinthians 1:21).
I have been firmly rooted in Christ and am now being built up in Him (Colossians 2:7).
Christ Himself is in me (and I am in Christ) (Colossians 1:27).
I have direct access to God through the Spirit (Ephesians 2:18).
I may approach God with boldness, freedom, and confidence (Ephesians 3:12).
In Christ, I am above every name that is named (Ephesians 1:21).
Coming in WEEK TWO: How Does God See You?
NOTE: You will find these same lists and so much more in my book: Is There An Elephant In YOUR Church?, also published by Amazon in print and on Kindle.
We know from scripture that Jesus was crucified, died and was buried, then He arose from the grave and later, ascended to heaven to sit at the right hand of Father-God.
We now also know, through the Fifth Gospel that Jesus revealed directly to Paul, that the same process happens spiritually, by grace through faith, to every in Adam person who becomes ”saved” by being reborn of God through agreeing with Romans 10:9-13.
By doing so, one’s core being – the spirit-self that is dead to God in Adam – is made alive as a New creation, who never existed before, and is now spiritually compatible –“one spirit” with God in Christ. Paul referred to this transformation happening in one’s “inner man.”