-
Jesus will never leave you. He promised.
Where you go, He goes, .. because He is in you.
Which explains WHY "Christ in you IS YOUR HOPE OF GLORY".....
And "hope of glory" means, you are going to heaven, expect this, look for this, and be happy about it. (HOPE).
"Glory" is eternity with God with Christ.. Its everything that you will encounter after you are either Raptured or you die. And its all GOOD, and so good is it, that it has not even entered into your imagination, what God has prepared for those who love Him who are justified by Christ's blood. = Born again.
As i was driving to the Gym one morning, i was thinking about teaching the simplicity of salvation, as this is not always taught in a way that allows it to be seen in its simplicity.
Now, ive taught the Grace of God all over the world, to people of many different cultures.... French, Asian, Russian, Muslim......etc.. And so, i learned that for Salvation to be understood as Jesus would want, for the benefit of the hearer, i need to be very clear.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
So here is a clear understanding of becoming saved..
Lets say, You are not saved. This means you are not joined to God and His Family and to Christ by Spiritual BIRTH The barrier between you and God is your Sin.
Your sin has made you UNRIGHTEOUS..... So, Salvation is God's method of making you Righteous. Thats it. Thats all it is... See, You have no righteousness... and so you can't be joined to a Righteous God, whose name is HOLY.
So, you have an eternal problem. How do you get the (God's) righteousness that you need so that you can become a part of God's righteous eternal family? And this is where all ideas and false theology and "religion" bite the dust and die. = See there is nothing you can do, of yourself, to become righteous or STAY righteous. You can't of yourself provide or do either. God knows this, so, He provided His very own Righteousness for you, as "the gift of Salvation", "the gift of Righteousness".
The main difference between an unbeliever and a believer is that the believer has been given God's righteousness, as a gift and is born AGAIN.
God righteousness given to a person, functions as a completed righteousness.
Its all of it given to you, at once, and its sealed unto you, into you, and on you, until your day of redemption. (When you meet Jesus).
God's righteousness Is Jesus on The Cross saying , "it is finished", and proving this is TRUTH by walking out of His Tomb....ALIVE.
All of this is defined by and as, GRACE. Grace, God's Grace, defines all of it. God's Grace is Jesus. God's Grace is GOD making you Righteous. And the Righteousness He Gives you, comes from Jesus... who IS your Righteousness.
On the Cross, Jesus became your sin and DIED, and upon being Born again, you become the Righteousness of GOD and LIVE as a Born again Child of God.
Jesus is your Righteousness. So, If you are born again, then you have Jesus's Righteousness in place of your unrighteousness.
Being "in Christ" means you are BECOME the Righteousness of Christ. This happened because God MADE YOU RIGHTEOUS when you FIRST BELIEVED and were Born Again.. And in fact, you are exactly the same Righteousness as Christ, right now, and forever, if you are born again.
Being SAVED, means you have Jesus in your heart, and in your Body. Being Saved is to become in Spiritual UNION with God's Holy Spirit. "ONE" with God and Christ.= Born again.
Jesus said He will never leave you.. Being Redeemed means you have Jesus's Righteousness, in place of your unrighteousness. God dying as Jesus on the Cross is how God accomplished this for you. Jesus's sacrifice of Himself for you on the Cross, is how His Righteousness is given.... God then takes this Righteousness and offers it as = "For God so loved the world, that He GAVE"..... And everyone who will call on the Name of Jesus, believing in their heart the Gospel, ... God sees each heart that does this, accepts this faith AS Righteousness, and He then takes The very righteousness of Himself, which is Christ's righteousness, and (imputes) GIVES IT TO YOU, and it becomes you. You as the "new creation in Christ" is you becoming God's very righteousness. Born again INTO IT and IT BECOMING YOU as the "New Creation".. "Christ in you", is what causes this, and you being "in Christ" is the eternal result.
And then it gets even better. Thats right, it gets even better. .....
First lets look at some words that actually mean "Grace", which actually mean "Jesus". First...Understand that Jesus is Grace. God's Grace IS Jesus...
Jesus is Salvation.
Jesus is Righteousness.
Jesus is the Blood Atonement.
Jesus is Redemption...
Jesus is Eternal Life So, if you have Him inside you, if you are born again, then you have all those inside you, also. = Hallelujah !! .... And because Jesus said He will NEVER LEAVE YOU, then all of those concepts, that are your "Christ in you" reality..... are also never going to leave you. Not ever.
Simplified ?? = Because Jesus will never leave you, then Redemption, Eternal Life, The Blood Atonement, Justification, Sanctification, also will NEVER LEAVE YOU.
So, do you see how God's Grace just keeps getting better and better? All of that is in you, because Jesus, who will never leave you, is in you.
-------------------------------------------------
And here is the icing. Here is the pièce de résistance........ Philippians 1:6
""""Being confident of this very thing, that God which hath begun your Salvation in you will Himself perform it, until the day of Jesus Christ""
Saint......Notice this verse carefully, as its a Gold Mine found in a universe of Glorious Hallelujah's .
This verse is one of the greatest verses in the bible, maybe the greatest verse in the New Testament, outside of "God is Love and For God so loved that He gave, Jesus."
This verse is telling you something, very very very important. Seal it in your heart. Deeply.
Its telling you, that you can have Confidence in the reality, and the truth, regarding the FACT that God HIMSELF who started your Salvation, (made you Righteous) is Himself Going to Complete it for you..."FAITHFULLY".. until you meet Jesus.
So what is the simple understanding of this verse? It means that God's salvation, that is given to YOU as a Gift, is all in His hands to complete for you, and He promises He will.
It means that YOU DONT COMPLETE IT....... He DOES !!
What you do, is try to please God with your life, that is your Discipleship, but that is not your Salvation. Your salvation is for God to complete, after Christ has become "Christ in you".
Do you want the Koine Greek, and the Ghetto version, understanding? Do you want it right across the plate so that you can give it your best swing?
Saint, this verse means, that God created HIS Salvation, that you dont control. A Grace, that you dont maintain. A Redemption that you dont supervise. Its simply means that God created His righteous merciful GRACE that saved you, so that you can't mess it up after you are Born Again.
And that is why you can't lose your salvation. Its because God who started it, is the Same God who will FAITHFULLY finish it FOR YOU.
Philippians 1:6
This verse is simply teaching that The God who saved you, will Himself, keep you saved..... And as the verse tells you, you are to have CONFIDENCE IN GOD to do it.