Tuesday | 19 March 2024
Proving that Christ is in us

In his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul declared, ‘For your obedience has become known to all … and the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly’. Rom 16:19-20. Satan is only bruised under our feet while we live and walk in obedience to the word of present truth. The apostle Paul, in his final address to the Corinthian church, spoke to them of an earlier letter that he had sent to them, addressing those among them who had sinned. Writing again, he said that he was coming a third time to address those among them who continued to sin. 2Co 13:1‑2.

The apostle defined their carnality as sin. He described it as contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults, uncleanness, fornication and lewdness. 2Co 12:20‑21. Paul had already taught them that those who practise these things do not have eternal life. Rom 1:32. He then urged the Corinthians to examine themselves to see if they were, indeed, in the faith. In this regard, he was asking whether they were Christians at all. They needed to test themselves to see if Christ was in them. If they could not prove, by demonstration, that the life of Christ was in them, then they were reprobate and lost. 2Co 13:5.

We demonstrate that Christ is in us by manifesting the fruit of the Spirit, which is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self‑control. Gal 5:22‑23. This fruit belongs to those who are crucifying the flesh, with its passions and desires, through fellowship in the offering and sufferings of Christ as members of His body. This reveals the faith of those who are being made worthy of the kingdom. A worthy house is a part of the agape fellowship of a local church, participating in the house‑to‑house fellowship and care of the local community.


Further Study:
2 CORINTHIANS 7
Daily Proverb:

References:
Rom 16:19-20
For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil. And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

2Co 13:1-2
This will be the third time I am coming to you. ‘By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.’ I have told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.

2Co 12:20-21
For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults; lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication, and lewdness which they have practised.

Rom 1:32
Who, knowing the righteous judgement of God, that those who practise such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practise them.

2Co 13:5
Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless indeed you are disqualified.

Gal 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
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