Friday | 26 December 2025
When Christ becomes the Anchor of our soul, He secures us with Him in the fellowship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Anchored in this way, He remains committed to the accomplishment of His finished work in us, even when we, at times, are faithless and stray from obedience. In fact, the only way that we can be separated from the love of Christ is if we deny Him by choosing to cut ourselves off from Him and from the fellowship of the presbytery. Declaring this principle, Paul wrote, ‘This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him. If we endure, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us. If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.’ 2Ti 2:11‑13.
Significantly, to be anchored to Christ, with the Father, in the fellowship of the Spirit, is to be secured in fellowship with our brethren. Evidently, burial is the place where we are being rooted and grounded in love with all the saints! Our fruitfulness as a son who has been born of God’s life depends upon being established in the love of God through burial. Eph 3:17‑19.
The apostle Paul declared that ‘we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life’. Rom 6:4. The ‘fruit’ of Christ’s death and burial is resurrection life. This is the capacity to fulfil the works of obedience that Christ learned for us through the things which He suffered. We can liken this life to the light of a new day in which we are to walk as we emerge from the ‘evening’ of our fellowship in His death and burial. We are being regenerated, and our soul is being restored. We are joined to this timeless reality of the cross because He is I AM. Joh 8:28.
Further Study:
Ephesians 3
References:
2Ti 2:11-13
This is a faithful saying: for if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him. If we endure, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us. If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
Eph 3:17-19
That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Rom 6:4
Therefore, we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Joh 8:28
Then Jesus said to them, ‘When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.’