Who I Am In Christ
We should appreciate who we are in Christ. Because we have gained Christ, all we could gain in this world is counted as loss.
Paul had many reasons to consider himself important, accomplished, and set above others. He said all of that was counted as nothing when he gained Christ.
Philippians 3:7-11
7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.
8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Jesus is God’s answer to sin. Sin separates. Sin divides.
Colossians 1:16-22
16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or [a]principalities or [b]powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,
20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.
21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled
22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—
Jesus is superior to all things. There is none beside Him. His blood washed the sin out of man’s life. God tore down the wall that separated us from Him. He blotted out and completely removed all transgressions.
God calls us holy.
God calls us unblameable.
God calls us unreproveable.