In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.
The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!
Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.
Christ is born into the world through each of us.
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.
If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.
What I get from my study of the Bible is that we're all in Christ, that we're all the same in God's eyes.
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