The Devotional - 1058 - Foot Steps in First Corinthians, ongoing

The Devotional – 1058 – Foot steps in First Corinthians, ongoing

If a person joins a military branch of service they are given new clothing to wear, a new way to maintain their hair and a set of regulations to live by; of course this analogy falls a bit short of the mark since as a tax payer the military person has paid some of the way for his or her new life-style. However, when we respond to the heavenly calling of God in Christ Jesus and become partakers of faith (Philippians 3:3 and Hebrews 3:1-2) we see that God has paid the way and has also given, along with a new way of life, a duffle bag full of spiritual redemption in Christ. 

CHALLENGES & COMMENTS – 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

You may be thinking… what does all of this have to do with 1 Corinthians and I say, everything pertaining to life and godliness pertains to 1 Corinthians, so hang on to your salvation helmet. 

The words “in Christ” are found thirty-six times in the epistle of Ephesians, we will take a look. Before we can get out of verse 1 we find #1, “saints who are faithful IN CHRIST JESUS. By the time we reach verse three we see #2, “Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in CHRIST JESUS.

What are these spiritual blessing? From verse 4 through verse 14 we find a precious field of holy attributes that were prepared by God before the world was set on its foundation. The scripture is CLEAR, in Him we are; chosen, blameless, adopted, accepted, redeemed, forgiven, and given an inheritance, predestined and sealed in Him by the Holy Spirit.

Also, He has made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Himself by giving us wisdom and understanding in the dispensational fullness of time. Now I know we have heard this before, but if we might only “grasp” the value of this, we might strive to show up in Bible Study more often. There is not a better place for the child of God to be than to understand the fullness of being – IN CHRIST.

This partial spiritual endowment is worth far more than the entire riches of the riches person on the earth today. If you are IN CHRIST and do not know this, I for one am saddened, since you are like the servant that Jesus spoke of in Matthew 25:14-30 who hid his talent, we are to know and use God’s resources that He has given to us.

The duffle bag of the military person weighs about sixty pounds when full, its worth to the military person is about $400.00, maybe $600.00 in our current economy, if the partial spiritual endowment of being in Christ were just material gold it would be worth over $11,520,000. Now we have only covered TWO of the times that IN CHRIST shows up and already we are spiritually more prosperous than those of the kingdom of this world which is perishing. Can you imagine how much God loves you and me? Well I have to go now, see you on Monday.