For Ye Are All One In Christ Jesus

Today's devotional passage will be from Galatians 3:26-29. Do in your own free time read through the whole chapter to get a deeper view into the topic. Also remember that this is just a short devotion which is aimed at encouraging Christian brothers/sisters as well as to serve to minister to the unsaved. =)

v26: For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
> All those who believe in Jesus are children of God.
> How we believe is by faith, that Jesus came down from Heaven to die for our sins on the cross.
> What is faith? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1).

v27: For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
> "baptized into Christ" basically means to acknowledge Christ as your personal Saviour.
> However, baptism does not save. Only by accepting Christ as you personal Saviour and believing that He came down to Earth to die for us and take away our sins, and is risen can you be saved.
> All of us who have believed in Christ are saved, and we are reminded that we have to put on the new man.
> Eph 4:24 describes the new man as "after God is created in righteousness and true holiness". In other words, when we put on the new man, we are putting on righteousness and holiness, attributes which can only describe God.
> How this is possible is because when we are saved, we are being sanctified, or being transformed to be more Christ-like.

v28: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ya are all one in Christ Jesus.
> See the contrasting words used in the verse: 1) Jew | Greek
2) bond | free
3) male | female
> These words are used in order to show that no matter how different we may be, be it racially, status wise, or physically, all who are saved are ONE in Christ.
> This shows the unity and harmony that should exist in the Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:27)

v29: And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
> The promise in this verse speaks of the promise God gave to Abraham, which can be found in Genesis 17:4, which reads "As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations."
> So when we are children of God, we are, actually, the fulfilment of God's promise to Abraham, which was that he was to "be a father of many nations"!

Conclusion: > Whenever we think that there is no one who can relate to us and when we seem to be searching for our identity, our Heavenly Father knows us the best, and we can be known as the sons of God.
> As for those out of the kingdom of Christ, hasten now as the day of atonement draws nigh.

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In Christ,
Timo