Title: Those who have won Christ
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Those who have attained Christ give up this world and all the illusions of the flesh. There is nothing in this world more precious than Christ. Because everything in this world except Christ is an illusion.
Therefore, those who have obtained Christ cast off their passions and desires along with the flesh (Jesus who came in the flesh). Among these people is the same testimony: “Through Christ the world was crucified to me, and I to the world.”
Everything in this world, as the written word, is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, and all these are but a passing illusion. As it is written, “Vanity and vanity, vanity and vanity, all things are vanity.”
God has given the real world to an illusionary world. This reality is the Son who is the life of God, that is, Christ Jesus. This life is not a disgraceful life, but a glorious new life, which is called eternal life. Therefore, those who have received Christ have eternal life.
Eternal life is not a physical life, but a spiritual life. The physical life is a disgrace, and the spiritual life is glorious. Those who have won Christ put off the old man of disgrace and go to the glorious new man, which is Christ.
This is done only in the reality, faith. Therefore, to those who receive Christ, who believe in His name, He gives the right to become children of God.
If you have come to this world and have obtained Christ, then that is enough. The happiness of those who gain Christ and are found in him is glory. This means that all who have attained Christ will forsake themselves and live as Christ again. The Bible says it will be born again.
Therefore, these people have the same testimony. “When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you will also appear with him in glory.” They comforted each other and said, “Now that we are children of God, what we will become has not yet been revealed, but when he appears, we will We know that we will be like him, because we will see him as he is, and everyone who has this hope in the Lord purifies himself as he is pure.”
Now those who have received Christ have died with Jesus to sin and were raised with Christ to God, thinking of things above and not of earthly things. Because the old man is dead. The Bible says, “Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. It was,” he testifies.
Therefore, those who have gained Christ also have gained God in Christ. It is through Christ that we have found the only true God, our Father, who is the life of eternal love, which was lost in Adam because of sin.
An encounter with the world is a temporary shadow, but an encounter with God in Christ is the eternal gospel and eternal life in the Father with Christ. This is “the unsearchable riches of Christ.” Lord! Thank you.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” Amen, we give eternal praise to God who has given us such great salvation in Christ Jesus. Emmanuel!!
little brother kim yoon-goo