Life in Christ Jesus Podcast Wayne Shelton

Most have heard the statement we are what we eat.  Jesus makes it clear in the Gospels that eating will affect us.  He says to eat His flesh and drink His blood to be filled with Him.  However, in the Gospels He tells His disciples to beware the bread (the word) of the Pharisees.  This word did not bring life.
We must be careful with what the word is doing which we are eating.   Is it bringing life or does it divide.  Does it build up the Body of Christ, or does it separate? Here in this study, we take a look at the word of the Pharisees.
Blessings in the Name of the Lord Jesus

In Matthew 16 it is recorded that Jesus asked who do men say He is?  Peter answered that He is the Christ.  In John's Gospel Jesus declares who He is.  We know this declaration as the I AM's of Jesus.  Glory to God.

Colossians 3:1 "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." 
Colossians 1:25 "Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 2  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" 
If I consider what Paul says in Chapter 1 in Chapter 3, where I may look for Christ to appear or be manifested may be in me.  This will go along with what Jesus tells Judas in John 14.  "I will manifest myself to you and not to the world."  Christ appears in you to bring you and I into the Glory of Him, that we may be glorified together with Him.  Glory to God!

In the resurrection, we live by Him that lives in us. We have no life but Him. We are raised up and seated together with Him, Paul writes in Ephesians 2. Here in this work of Christ we are made One with Him. It is not Jesus being made one with us in who we are. It is us being made one with Him in who He is. We are coming to know Him, and His Life. Glory to God!

Jesus doesn't just give us life. He is our life! Christ lives in you if you have received Him. This is the hope of the Gospel, the plan of salvation. God's very life living in creation! Glory to God!!