Loving the Christ-life!

By Tammy Lacock

“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.” (Philippians 3:10)

Warren Litzman digs deeper into Apostle Paul’s words, “the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord” (in Philippians 3:8). Paul makes it clear Christ is very literally his life now. His old life doesn’t matter anymore. In fact, he counted his old life but “dung,” worthless, compared to knowing Christ. All he wants now is to be found in Him, not having his own life anymore, but living by the life of the One who is Life.

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20 KJV)

Paul says many times in his 14 letters that he no longer lives by his own righteousness or even by his own faith (Romans 3:22; Galatians 2:16, 20; Galatians 3:21, to name a few). It’s the righteousness and faith of Christ that lives in and through him.

There’s nothing we can do or not do to make us more pleasing to God. Christ did the work on the cross and Christ is our redemption. He is our new life and knowing Him in this way was all that Paul wanted.

Paul goes on even deeper to say in Philippians 3:10 that he wants to know Christ in all ways, in His sufferings, His death, and His resurrection. For he knew that when Christ died, we died too, our old lives buried with Him. In His resurrection, we arose with Him to our new life in Him. He wanted to know all about this, and Paul knew the only way was by getting to know Christ, the very life that now lives in him.

He knew that this knowledge of Christ in Him would require a radical mind change. Indeed, Christ revealed this to Paul first and Paul turned around and revealed it to us. He was the first human to know the inward life of Christ. No doubt, Paul’s in-Christ teaching in Antioch lead to the first time believers were called Christians (Christ-persons). In his epistles, Paul emphasizes knowing and living Christ. This most excellent knowledge is given by the power of the Holy Spirit; our minds can be renewed as we continue to understand and know Christ, the Christ that now occupies our very spirits.

“But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” (1 Corinthians 5:16 KJV)

Warren reminds us, through Paul’s epistles, that we will never really know who we are until we know Christ. If we don’t know the One who now lives in us, then we will never know ourselves. Christ came to complete us. We were chosen in him before the foundation of the world.

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4 KJV)

In 1 Corinthians 11:1, Paul urges Christians, “Follow me as I follow Christ.”

So that we, too, may know Christ as Paul did, here and now.

By Tammy Lacock

“Yeah doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.” (Philippians 3:8 KJV)

He’s my Strength.

He’s my Power.

He’s my Righteousness

He’s my Faith.

He’s my Life.

He’s my Everything.

Warren Litzman really dives into the heart of the Apostle Paul’s words in Philippians 3:8 saying Paul was deeply committed to Christ and to the knowledge of Christ. Nothing else mattered. Nothing about his old life mattered once he knew Christ. Paul knew that by believing in Christ as his Savior, that he was a brand-new creation. The moment he believed was the moment Christ was placed in him, to be his new life, born again. He suffered the loss of all that he knew himself to be and counted it all dung (aka poop!) so that he would win his new life in Christ. He was all in.

The person who wins Christ is the person who puts Christ first in his life and commits to his new life in Him.

But how do we do that?

Paul tells us that we must make a decision. We must have a mind change. We must make up our minds and, moreover, give our minds over to the knowledge of Christ in us. We are now not to know anything but Christ. As our new life, Christ is everything, our strength, our righteousness, our faith, and this is how God sees us. God sees the Christ that now lives in us. Paul explains this further in Philippians 3 verse 9 when he writes:

“And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.”

Warren goes on to explain, through Paul’s epistles, that the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus is not of the historical Christ. In 2 Corinthians 5:16, Paul says we are not to know Christ in the flesh any longer. We are to know Him now as our new life, living in us. When He drank the cup in Gethsemane, we were put in Him. When He died, we died, too, to our old lives. And with His resurrection, we were resurrected, too, to a brand-new life in Him. He is alive and well in each and every one of us who believes.

Christ is now joined to us in spirit, making us one Spirit. We are perfect in spirit. We are saved! It’s in our souls (our minds, wills, and emotions) where we are still being delivered, as our minds continue to grasp the excellency of the knowledge of Christ, who now lives in us.

God will not force us to change our minds. He’s already finished His work by saving us through giving us His Son. He knew he couldn’t depend on us (our faith, our righteousness) and would need to place His Son in us to be reconciled to Him. Yet he knows it’s in our minds where our love affair with Christ begins and evolves. This is where our commitment to Him deepens. As we give our minds over to Christ, the Holy Spirit teaches us of Him and brings us closer to Him. By God’s Grace we are saved, and by His grace we need only to depend on Christ now…for everything.

This is when we really win Christ. When our mind change allows our old lives to fade away, to be counted as “dung,” nothing else matters but our new life in Him. When all we desire is to be found in Him, in all situations and circumstances. We win Christ when our minds grasp that He who is in us is greater than anything outside of us.

How deep is your commitment to Him?

What does it mean to you to have Christ in you?

Is your mind still holding onto your old life?

Or are you all in?

Paul explains his own deep commitment to Christ quite perfectly in Galatians 2:20 (KJV):

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman continues to discuss our commitment to Christ by following the apostle Paul through his epistles. Warren focuses this week on verses 3-7 of Philippians 3. These verses explain in more detail what Paul means by “the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord” in verse 8.

Warren prefaces this podcast by emphasizing Paul’s own commitment to Christ. Before Paul’s conversion on his way to Damascus, he was deeply committed to the law and the outer things of this world, what he calls things of the flesh. After His conversion and revelation of Christ as his new life, Paul was committed to Christ and knowing only Him. Now that the Holy Spirit revealed to him that Christ lives in him, all he could think about was Christ. This was the greatest, most amazing revelation God had ever told anyone and Paul knew it! In fact, Paul and John refer to Christ living in us and us in Him more than 146 times!

In verses 3-7, Paul shares with us the depth of his own commitment to Christ. He says in verse 3, that he no longer lives for outer things, he now lives and rejoices in Christ Jesus, his new life. He now worships in spirit, no more by the law and by works. In verses 4 through 6, he boasts of his old life saying that if anyone was committed to the law and outer things (i.e. his education, his desire in becoming a member of the Sanhedrin, killing Christians in the name of righteousness), it was him more than anybody. He was the Hebrew of the Hebrews, a Pharisee, extremely learned and blameless in the Jewish law. He had everything going for him. Yet, he says, all of that means nothing. He no longer lives that life and rejoices now in Christ Jesus! His new life is Christ and nothing else matters.

“I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20 KJV)

When Christ died on the cross, we died, too, to our old lives. When Christ arose, we arose as well, to a new life IN Him. We no longer live, Christ lives in us as our new life. We are born again. This is the heart of Paul’s writings. He says “follow me as I follow Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1) so that we too will know and understand our new life in Christ. So that we too will know and love Christ and commit ourselves to Him. By His life in us, we are complete in our creation. God’s intention for us before the foundation of the world has been fulfilled (Ephesians 1:4).

Paul wants us to know Christ now and it is only through his writings where we can understand how to live our new life.

We must be committed. Where does commitment take place? Paul tells us that it’s in our minds where we must allow the Holy Spirit to teach us of Christ and comfort us as we move into a deeper commitment in Him.

The Holy Spirit will help us to focus on Christ, knowing Him and not law, as our righteousness, our wisdom, our salvation, our very life. The Holy Spirit will help us to separate the outer (flesh) things from our spirit, now joined to Christ. He will help us to let go of our attachments to our old life. As our commitment deepens, Christ in us takes hold. Paul says this is when we realize that nothing else matters, not even our own lives.

He rejoices in no longer living his old life for the excellency of his new life in Christ:

“Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.” (Philippians 3:8)

God’s work was finished at the cross. By His commitment to us through His son’s death and resurrection, we win Christ as our new life. May we now commit to Him and love Him more and more every step of the way.

That’s all He really wants.

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren continues to explain the two important commitments in which God’s plan operates.

The first is Christ’s deep commitment to us. In His death, He committed His life so that in His death, we too would die to our old lives, and in his resurrection, we would also rise to live a new life in Him. He who knew no sin bore all of our sins and transgressions so that we would be freed from Adam’s curse of sin and the law. By only believing, we are saved from this world and Christ becomes our new life. We are born again. We are now complete in Him, finally allowing us to be who God created us to be. Nothing else fits us but Christ. In His commitment to us, God gave us His Son as our hope, our only hope of glory.

The second is our commitment to Christ who now lives in us. Warren emphasizes that only through Paul’s writings are we able to understand how to live now with Christ as our new life. Are we committed to Him? Or are we still living our old lives?

Paul was the only man raised up by Christ, Himself, to bring us the message of Christ alive in us. It was revealed to him in the Arabian Desert, and he brought it first to the believers in Antioch, where they were first called Christians, or Christ-persons. Paul began to explain our new life in Christ and how we are to live with this knowledge. His message changed the course of history, yet it has yet to really take hold. Most Christians don’t know who they are in Christ. At least three times, Paul says this knowledge was given to him to give to us (Ephesians 3:2). He also says, “Follow me as I follow Christ” (1 Cor. 11).

And in Philippians 3:8, he says, “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.”

Paul explains that we must change our thinking. In order to live here and now, he says, we must commit ourselves to the Christ within us. When we come to know and love Him more and more, we grow to understand His deep commitment to us, a commitment made before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4).

We grow to understand that we, too, are now sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father. We grow to learn of His unconditional love and His relentless grace.

We grow to understand the price He paid so He can be our new life. And according to Paul, it’s not so much about getting into Heaven. Although we are saved by just believing, it’s about our love affair with, and commitment to, Christ now.

And so I ask again, are you committed to Christ? Or are you still living your old life?

By Tammy Lacock

“And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.” (Colossians 2:10, KJV)

Warren Litzman begins by reminding us that God’s work is finished. It was finished at the cross. All we need to do is believe. Our problem now is not in God’s doing, it’s in our receiving. In it’s our lack of learning and knowledge of who we are in Christ where we remain stuck. In Warren’s words, God has dumped a big bucket of Grace on us, and yet we don’t even know it to receive it.

In this Part 13 of The Excellency of the Knowledge of Christ, Warren shares, through Paul’s epistles, what it means to be complete in Christ and what happens in our completion. Our completion comes from two important commitments in which God’s plan operates.

One commitment is made by God and is far reaching and deep beyond our comprehension. His commitment is full of grace and love. His commitment runs the universe. Warren explains that God is love and, therefore, in His deep commitment to us, He desires love in return.

The other commitment is made by us, and yet about 90 percent of Christians are not committed to Christ. This happens through our lack of knowledge of who we are in Christ as believers. We have yet to present ourselves to God. Through Paul’s epistles, we learn of that commitment and through that commitment, we ultimately learn of God’s commitment to us, His amazing Grace and Mercy in our completion, and our new Life in Christ.

In order to understand our commitment and our return of love to God, we must first try to understand, at least in part, God’s commitment to us.

In Ephesians 1:4, Paul tells us we were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. God committed to complete us by union with Christ, in Christ, even before the world was created!

In John 3:16, John shares, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” God loves us so much, that He gave His Son to die, to conquer sin and death, so that we could live forever in Him! Christ is a gift to us to complete us.

God knew, and proved throughout history, that no man could love God in return; man would continually fall short of His glory. Not even obedience to the law would work. God knew in the beginning that the only way we could ever return His love would be to place a part of Himself, His Son with His own God-nature, in us to be our new Life. This would be the only way we would come back to Him. In Christ, we are now His bona fide children. Through God’s relentless grace, all we need to do is believe in Christ. Yet He is committed to us in that He wants us now to know and love Christ in our commitment to Him.

Through Paul’s epistles, the Holy Spirit comforts us in our new life in Christ. He teaches us how we are to live now that we are complete in Christ. Paul’s epistles remind us of our marriage to Christ. To know and love Christ is to know and love our Heavenly Father.

God doesn’t need our love in return but because of His Son’s death on the cross, He desires it. For His Son did not die in vain but to give us new life and life more abundantly. In Him, we are complete.

By Tammy Lacock

“Yeah doubtless, I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ: my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung so that I may win Christ.” (Philippians 3:8)

Warren Litzman begins this week’s podcast with One Baptism, one of several main points Apostle Paul reveals in his “excellency of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ.”

Warren explains that there is only one baptism for the believer. That is, being fully immersed in Christ by the Holy Spirit. Completely immersed as one body of believers in Him. Paul goes on to say that we were made for just this, for all believers to be baptized, fully immersed, into Christ. We are brought back to Him through this baptism, no longer of water but of the Holy Spirit. The baptism of the Holy Spirit into Christ supersedes any water baptism. This is the only baptism we need. And we need only to believe.

“For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:13, KJV)

What a glorious gift! By just believing, we are now one in Him. He becomes and is our new life, even as we walk our daily lives. To the ongoing believer, this is where our love affair with Him grows. This is where we begin to truly understand Him as Savior. This is where our minds begin to renew as we learn more of Him and our new life in Him. Paul tells us that once we believe, we are an entirely new creation. Our old lives, our histories, are dead. Christ IS our new life and it’s now time to get to know Him. It becomes a personal relationship now that we understand there is no separation between us and Him. He’s our life!

By Tammy Lacock

Warren Litzman makes it clear, once again, that his mission is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the writings of the Apostle Paul.

In this week’s podcast, he goes on to explain the first use of the term “Christian” and what it means to be a Christian. It is only through Paul’s epistles where we can begin to know who we are as Christians.

The Apostle Paul was raised up by Christ, Himself, as the only writer in the Bible to deliver what he calls the “revelation of the mystery”.

“Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began.” (Romans 16:25)

“How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words)." (Ephesians 3:3)

So what is this mystery Paul speaks of?

It is made clear throughout his epistles that the great mystery is Christ literally living in every believer. This is where the term “Christian” originates. We are Christ-persons, Christians. Paul first used this term in Antioch to define believers in whom Christ lives.

“Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.” (Acts 11:25-26)

Paul shares his revelation of the mystery not only to the believers during his time but also to us NOW. His message is alive and well for us NOW! Christ NOW lives in us. When He died on the cross, we died too, to our old lives. And when He arose from the dead, we arose too, to a new life in Him.

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20)

Warren goes on to explain what it means to be a completed Christian.

A mature, completed Christian knows their true identity, who he/she is in Christ. They’ve had the revelation of the mystery. They see Christ as their only life and will rightly divide the Scriptures between those who don’t know Christ as their life and those who are born again and know Christ as their life. The law no longer functions for those who know Christ in them. It’s no longer needed for those born again. Christ is their new life. Those who do not know Christ need the law in order to function.

Christians are supercharged by another life they now live, Christ in them. They know that God sees Jesus in them now. He doesn’t see a Baptist, or a Methodist, or a Charismatic, or a Catholic, etc. Christians know that because God sees Jesus as their new life, we are His bona fide children, joint-heirs with Christ to His heavenly Kingdom. We are no longer earthly beings but are translated into His Kingdom. We are on our way to living in our Father’s heavenly house. As ambassadors of Christ, we are here on earth now to represent His government and reconcile others to Him (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Warren emphasizes God’s heartfelt love for those who believe in Christ, His Son, as their Savior. When He saw Jesus pay that price for our sins to reconcile us back to Him, His Grace and Mercy poured out unto us, and is pouring out unto us every day.

Dive into Paul’s epistles and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you the great mystery Paul writes about over and over in his epistles. The mystery of who you are! The mystery of Christ living in you! You are a Christ person, a Christian!

And in the eyes of God, you are His bona fide child!

By Tammy Lacock

“Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began.” (Romans 16:25)

Warren Litzman begins this week’s podcast reminding us of the two pillars of the gospel of Jesus Christ: Christ’s death on the cross and the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began.

What’s the mystery? "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). The mystery is Christ in us, Christ in all who believe in Him as their Savior.

This is the birthing. The moment we believe, we are born again. Dead to this world with Christ at the cross and born again to a new life in Him. We are literally brand new creations with Christ as our new life.

“And that day ye shall know that I am in the Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” (John 14:20)

Christ, Himself, revealed the mystery to the Apostle Paul; and through Paul’s epistles, He is revealing it to us. In fact, all of Paul epistles are directed to the born-again believer in hopes that the Holy Spirit will reveal Christ in us as well. He’s speaking as a man who has Christ in him and wants all of us to know Christ lives in us, too. Paul wants us to truly know Christ, to begin a love affair with Him.

This was God’s plan since before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4), and He’s completing His plan with the birthing of Christ in every believer. We are now His bona fide children, joint heirs to His kingdom with Christ. It’s all ours. He gave us everything of His through His Son by His grace.

Paul tells us the Holy Spirit has one great mission: To reveal Christ in the believer. The Holy Spirit’s ministry is to dwell in our souls (minds) and teach us about Christ. Jesus said the Holy Spirit will never speak of Himself, only Christ. The revelation of the mystery of Christ in us is the very heart of our being. It’s the very heart of God’s plan.

Our new birth was accomplished by God alone. It wasn’t a church thing, a preacher thing, a Bible thing, or a human thing. When we were saved, we had nothing to do with it aside from the measure of faith which He gave to us by His Grace; and, likewise, it’s by His Grace that we come to know Him.

Paul was determined to share his revelation of Christ in us. In all the Bible, he’s the only one to whom it was revealed, three years after his conversion on the way to Damascus. Later, it was revealed to Peter and John in their writings. Paul’s epistles make up only one-fifth of the Bible, and yet he makes it very clear that all we need to know is Christ. His very life in us is our completion. We are now fully equipped to live who God created us to be. If we are to understand and know the gospel of Christ, we must dive into Paul’s epistles and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal Him to us. In 1 Corinthians 2:2, Paul is adamant, “For I am determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”

May we follow Paul as he follows Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1) and know Him, too, as our only life.

By Tammy Lacock

Warren Litzman continues to explain, through Paul’s epistles, our new birthing as Christians. When we are born again, the incorruptible seed of God’s Son, Christ Jesus, has been placed in us, joined to our Spirit, making us one spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17 KJV). This birthing completes our creation; and we now have the right, for the first time, as God’s bona fide children, to fulfill who He created us to be. Christ in us completes our creation. Yet, is is only through Paul epistles by revelation where we can know this. Paul shares his revelation in his letter to the Colossians chapter 2, verse 10, “And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.”

Warren emphasizes how our new birth in Christ has been part of God’s plan since before the foundation of the world. In fact, there are two pillars established before the foundation of the world that hold up the gospel of Jesus Christ: the death and resurrection of Christ on the cross and consequently, the birthing of Christ in every believer (Ephesians 1:4). Christ couldn’t bring this message of living in us while he was here in the flesh. Man wasn’t ready. He did mention to Nicodemus that we “must be born again” (John 3:3, 7), but He knew this revelation must wait. He knew He must die for people to believe. God raised up Paul to bring us this message of our death in Christ’s death and His eternal life now living in every believer. By diving into Paul’s epistles, this great mystery can be revealed to us by the Holy Spirit.

We must know that Christ lives in us to live out our completion. Paul states clearly in Romans 16:25 that there is no other gospel than his gospel now, that Christ lives in every believer. And only by revelation can we know this. This great mystery was God’s plan from the beginning, before He laid the foundation of the world. And only those who now know this gospel have authority to preach it.

“Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began.” (Romans 16:25, KJV)

It took Peter some time for this revelation to take hold. He didn’t know. In fact, he and Paul preached

A Christian is born again. A Christian is one in whom Christ now lives, not figuratively, but actually. We are complete in our new birthing. Christ is our new life. Yet the only way we can live who God created us to be is to know this. Dive into Paul’s epistles and let the Holy Spirit reveal it to you.

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20, KJV)

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman continues to explain what it means to be born again and how our new birthing in Christ is God’s ultimate plan for us, even before the foundation of the world.

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4, KJV)

He emphasizes that our new birthing is a God-thing. The moment we believe in Christ Jesus as our Savior is the very same moment our new birthing takes place. Christ’s death and resurrection conquered the curse of our old lives ruled by sin, the sin-nature. God then placed His very seed, His Son, the incorruptible seed of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:23) in each and every one of us who believes. This seed of Christ is eternal, joined to our spirits, making us one spirit in Him. There’s nothing we can do or not do to change our new birthing. Once the seed is planted in us, God doesn’t take it back. Warren likens this to the seed placed in a woman by a man. In this case, the seed can be aborted, the life can be taken away. However, God is not an abortionist. God didn’t put His seed in us with conditions. By His grace and mercy, this seed will never leave us nor forsake us. God put His Son’s seed in us because He loves us. We are now His bona fide children!

Life comes out of death. In Christ’s obedience to the Father, He knew He must die. He knew the only way for this innate change in human beings, the only way they could live, is by His death. No matter how many miracles He performed, human beings would not believe. And He knew He would not succumb to an earthly ministry. He knew the only way for a love affair between us and His Father would be through His death and resurrection. The only way we could be saved from eternal death and the grip of this world would be through giving His Life so He, God’s very seed, could now be placed in us.

In fact, Jesus uses the word “world” 18 times to express that He is not happy with the world, He’s not happy in it, and He’s not happy that His followers are in it. He knew the only way that we could even have a chance to love God back would be through His death. The only chance at life for us would be by His death.

And now, as believers, we have His eternal Life, Christ Jesus, God’s seed, in us. We are no longer subject to this world. Christ is now bringing us forth as the sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father. So, our love affair in Him begins.

Our new life is Christ (1 John 5:11-12). This is God’s completed plan for us since “before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4).

Yep, it’s a total God-thing.