As Christians, we need to renew our minds everyday as to who we are in Christ, and what we have in Christ. God transforms our hearts and minds like this by the power of the Holy Spirit within us, when we renew our minds by His Word.
We need to renew our minds daily because Satan will try to steal it from you, or make you question or doubt who you are in Christ, so that you will not be a help to those who are not Christians yet. He blinds their eyes so they cannot see. So, he tries to make all the Church ineffective in reaching them by making us question, doubt, or forget who we are in Christ.
So we have to be "sober and alert" by renewing our mind with the Word. Let's do that now. Then you can have these verses handy everyday.
1. When we were "born again," by the Holy Spirit, when we received Jesus as Lord by believing in His name, we were forever adopted into His family, the kingdom of God, the Church. We are God's children now.
John 1:12-13 NIV
[12] Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— [13] children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
Romans 8:14-16 NIV
[14] For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. [15] The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” [16] The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
1 John 3:1a.NIV
[1] See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!...
2.We are saved by God's grace. We have eternal life. We are forever sealed in Christ by the Holy Spirit. No one can snatch us out of the kingdom of God, the Church which is our spiritual family now. We are in the family of God, the kingdom of God forever. We will never be condemned to Hell. Nothing will separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. God protects us until we receive our inheritance of eternal life.
Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV
[8] For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— [9] not by works, so that no one can boast.
John 3:16 NIV
[16] For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Ephesians 1:13-14 NIV
[13] And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, [14] who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
John 10:27-30 NIV
[27] My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. [28] I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. [29] My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. [30] I and the Father are one.”
John 3:18 NIV
[18] Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
John 5:24 NIV
[24] “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
Romans 8:38-39 NIV
[38] For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, [39] neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Peter 1:3-5 NIV
[3] Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, [4] and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, [5] who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
2 Timothy 4:18 NIV
[18] The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
3.Being God's children, we belong to Jesus now:
Romans 14:8 NIV
[8] If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
4. We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus:
2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV
[21] God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
5. We are made perfect and holy once and for all by the finished work of Jesus:
Hebrews 10:10, 14 NIV
[10] And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
[14] For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
6. We are saved completely forever by our Lord Jesus Christ:
Hebrews 7:24-25 NIV
[24] but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. [25] Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
7. We are holy, unblameable, unreproveable in God's sight. That's how He sees us now because we are in Christ as we continue in our faith:
Colossians 1:21-23 NIV
[21] Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. [22] But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— [23] if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
8. We have been given all the fullness of Christ by the Holy Spirit inside us.
Colossians 2:9-10a. NIV
[9] For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, [10] and in Christ you have been brought to fullness.
9. We are made holy by the blood of Jesus:
Hebrews 13:12 NIV
[12] And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.
10. Our citzenship is in heaven now:
Philippians 3:20-21 NIV
[20] But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, [21] who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
11. We are seated in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, which is the way God sees us now:
Ephesians 2:6-7 NIV
[6] And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, [7] in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
12. Our names are written in heaven, as we are the "church of the firstborn."
Hebrews 12:22-24 NIV
[22] But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, [23] to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, [24] to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
13. As we "fall short of the glory of God," we are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by the finished work of Jesus. As we confess our sins, He always forgives us. He is faithful and just in doing so, because of the blood of Jesus
Romans 3:21-26 NIV
[21] But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. [22] This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, [23] for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, [24] and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. [25] God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— [26] he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
1 John 1:9 NIV
[9] If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
Okay. There are so many more passages to tell us who we are in Christ, and what we have in Christ, but this will help you get started on renewing your mind everyday.
"Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God!"
Please share with others!!
Love you all,
Jeffrey Post
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