![]() ![]() Although these relationships are indeed important and very precious to all of us, they must always be secondary to the union we have in Christ. It is more vital than those precious links we enjoy with family, friends, spouses, children, parents, and colleagues. It is greater than any earthly relationship we may have. And during His earthly ministry, the Lord Jesus made it increasingly clear that there is no more important relationship in the life of a believer that our relationship with HIM. When we are born again by trusting in Jesus as the sin sacrifice for our sin, there are hundreds more blessings that become ours in Christ Jesus, and they are all YES and AMEN in Him. We have been delivered from the wrath to come, are no longer under condemnation, have been given every spiritual blessing, and are a partaker of His promise in Christ by faith in the gospel. We are redeemed from the curse of the Law and fully reconciled to God. Our sins, past, present, and future are forgiven and will never be remembered again. At the point of salvation, immeasurable blessings are poured out on all God's children, eternal life becomes a present possession, we are justified in the sight of God, we have passed from death to life, we have been quickened - made alive by God. It is only when we are born again - born from above, that the insurmountable blockade that bars us from our Father in heaven is eternally removed and we become a child of God, purchased from above, an heir of salvation, born of His Spirit and washed in Christ's redeeming blood. ![]() ![]() It is only when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation that we are transferred from the kingdom of Satan into the kingdom of God's dear Son. We are born into the kingdom of darkness at birth and there is a permanently, impassable barrier that separates us from the God who created us. We are born 'in sin' with a sin nature, dead in trespasses and sin, which makes us sinners and which means that we are estranged from God. When we are physically born into the human race we become part of the family of man. ![]()
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