Christians are to live in
constant, conscious communion with Christ. Yes,
Jesus Christ literally lives within you if you have
put your faith in Him as your personal Savior.
The heart of Christian living
is found in the death and resurrection of Jesus
Christ. The apostle Paul wrote, “I have been
crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but
Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body I
live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and
gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20).
Christ lives in you (Col.
1:27). That is a fact that is true of every
believer.
Jesus prayed for you and me
when He prayed, “That all of them may be one,
Father, just as you are in Me and I am in You. May
they also be in us that the world may believe that
You have sent Me. I have given them the glory that
You gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I
in them and You in Me” (John 17:20-23).
“I in them and You in Me.”
Because Jesus Christ lives in you, His strength
works in and through you to bring glory to Him.
Learn to trust Him moment by moment living in you.
Jesus living in us is like the
glove on your hand. I may say to my glove, “Pick up
that Bible.” That glove cannot do a thing. But when
I slip that glove on my hand it is a perfect fit.
Then when I say, “Pick up the Bible” it has perfect
control. Jesus Christ living in you is a perfect
fit. “Christ in you” is the astonishing reality that
He clothes Himself with us and uses you and me for
His eternal purposes. As we make ourselves available
to the indwelling Christ, He molds us and uses us as
He so pleases for His glory.
Jesus said, “Abide in Me, and I
in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you
unless you abide in Me” (John 15:4).
It is essential that we have
this confidence in Jesus Christ who will in His
divine power, make us partakers of His work, His
life, His indwelling. What you and I cannot do, He
does in and through us.
Christ our Redeemer is the
Almighty One, who is everlasting and unchangeable,
and it is He who has chosen to indwell you and me
with His holy presence. He effected real cleansing
and a putting away of sin, so that He can enter into
our inmost being and dwell there.
He alone is the One who can
reach your heart and fill it with the power of His
eternal Word. Moreover, He can maintain without any
shadow of turning in never ceasing fashion His life
with you.
“Christ in you,” Christ living
in you by faith, has the power to make your
circumstances, no matter how difficult, a heavenly
discipline, to serve His eternal purposes for His
glory and your good.
Christ in us, abiding in us,
gives us new life, and fills us with Himself. As we
make ourselves available to Him, He makes our inner
life the proof of His almighty power. The apostle
Paul said, “I count all things but loss for the
excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my
Lord.” Yes, you can have a constant, conscious
communion with Christ in a living experiential heart
knowledge that comes from faith and fellowship with
Him.
Christ living within us works
in us every day to lift us up and enables us to live
as those who are seated with Him in the heavenlies.
Selah!
Message by Wil Pounds (c) 2006
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Wil is a graduate of William Carey University, B. A.; New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Th. M.; and Azusa Pacific University, M. A. He has pastored in Panama, Ecuador and the U. S, and served for over 20 years as missionary in Ecuador and Honduras. He had a daily expository Bible teaching ministry head in over 100 countries from 1972-2005. He continues to seek opportunities to be personally involved in world missions. Wil and his wife Ann have three grown daughters. He currently serves as a Baptist pastor and teaches seminary extension courses in Ecuador.
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