Transformed by Beholding Jesus by Sebastian Mathews

I am pleased to introduce to you my friend Sebastian Mathews. Sebastian and his family began attending Forward Church in January 2019. They were familiar with grace and the New Covenant message but they did not know how to actuate grace. After a series of frustrations and a devastating loss, they discovered not only the freedom of grace but the power of grace. God’s influence in our hearts is not just unmerited favor, it’s a power that brings about radical transformation in very radical ways. Sebastian teaches what he’s learned and gives a testimony of how it has given way to incredible fruit in just about every area of his life.

“Nathanael said to Him, ‘How do You know me?’ 

Jesus answered and said to him, ‘…when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.’” John 1:48

We all view the world differently, based on our own ideas.

All of us wear spectacles in some form or another. We all view the world around us from our own unique perspectives, or what can be called a worldview. Those lenses are often filtered and distorted, sometimes even cracked and broken. Yet as believers, how we view God profoundly shapes our life, the decisions we make, the experiences we go through, and the outcomes thereof.

Tim Keller, noted Christian apologist, suggests that any worldview consists of posing and answering three questions:

1. How are things supposed to be?

2. What is the main problem with things as they are?

3. What is the solution and how can it be realized?

Don’t we all ask those questions at some point or another? We know the promises of God in our heads whether it be in our health, relationships, or our finances, and we wonder how we can appropriate those for ourselves into our hearts so that we can experience what God has promised for us in our lives.

These worldviews and the ideas behind them have consequences.

“As he thinketh in his heart, so is he” Ps 23:7 (KJV).

Throughout history, how people have viewed the world, or their worldviews, has influence their personal meaning, values, and the way they think and act. We all know that if people change their worldviews, they change their values and the way they think and act and ultimately the outcomes they experience. 

The idea of freedom for example that was first expressed in the American Declaration of Independence of 1776 had global effects. For example, as this new idea of freedom spread its way across the Atlantic from America to Europe, “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” or “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, as expressed in 1790 by Maximilien Robespierre, chief influencer of the French Revolution, became its rallying cry.

But even great ideas can be easily lost. Unless we are regularly reminded.

By the end of the 18th century, the French revolution was rapidly losing steam. Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon and the first elected president of France, when he could not be constitutionally re-elected, seized power in 1851 and made himself emperor. 

And likewise, even on the other side of the ocean back in America, that first great experiment in freedom lay precariously in the balance, the fledging country laid waste by the civil war of 1861 to 1865. 

• And so Abraham’s Lincoln’s seminal address at Gettysburg in 1863, seeking to bring unity and healing to a divided nation just four months after the Union had defeated Confederate soldiers at the battle of Gettysburg at that turning point in the war, rededicated America’s founding as “conceived in liberty”, reaffirmed the “proposition that all men are created equal”, and borrowing from John Wycliffe’s’ prologue to the first English translation of the Bible in 1384. “The Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People” reminded the gathered audience “That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”; irrevocably linking God with freedom.

• Two score years later in 1883, Emma Lazarus, the Jewish-American poetess, wrote these words, affixed to the Statue of Liberty, welcoming immigrants to freedom, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”. Apt isn’t it that her last name was Lazarus, reminding us of her namesake poor beggar who was carried to Abraham’s bosom while the rich man ended up in torment in Hades in Jesus’ parable in Luke 16:19-31.

As we see above, these rejoinders don’t even have to be codified into formal documents for them to remind and renew the hearts and minds of people. Ideas do powerfully exist in and can be transmitted through mottos, speeches, poems, and even comic books!

Here’s a great idea. It is the freedom in Christ that makes us great. 

26 Brothers and Sisters think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things - and the things that are not - to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before Him. 30 It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God - that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption” 1 Corinthians 1:26-30.

As believers, we recognize this call, not to the best and the brightest but to the least and the lowest. For, it is freedom in Christ that transforms and empowers us, causing greatness to arise within us. 

So how do we lose our freedom? When we start viewing Jesus wrong.

Our view of Jesus is important. It affects every aspect of our lives; whether we live in freedom and victory or bondage and failure. For example, have you, or perhaps someone close to you, had to weather a storm, perhaps a sickness or disease? My dad died when I was 22 years old and left behind myself, my kid sister, and my mom, without family in South Africa, where we had moved to and lived for only just over a decade. He had given his life to Jesus just three years earlier. As a recently saved family of believers, we were surrounded by well-meaning religious folk and faced with many conflicting views about Jesus in the midst of this storm. How many of us have been in similar situations and have heard of and worse still believed some of the following incorrect views about Jesus?

• “Suck it up” – Do you see Jesus as a military drill sergeant? Do you believe that Jesus sent (or even worse, allows) the storm to refine me and build character in our life?

• “It’s your fault” – Do you see Jesus as a high school Jesus? Do you think you are responsible for the storms in your life so you believe that you should pay the price and face the consequences?

• “Shift happens” – Do you see Jesus as a heavenly teddy bear? We live in a fallen world and storms happen, after all didn’t He say we will have trouble? Do you believe that all Jesus will do is “comfort” you as you endure it?

• “Que será, será” – Do you see Jesus as a mystery? Since His ways are above our ways, maybe if it’s God’s will, He will heal me but then again, what may be , may be and so maybe He won’t. I will never know in this life. If it’s His will that I suffer, then I just have to accept it.

What does the biblical Jesus look like?

The way to view Jesus clearly is to see, not the Jesus from man-made tradition be they religious philosophy or human performance, but the Jesus of the bible. 

How did He deal with people who came to him with a sickness or disease, for example? Did He tell them to suck it up and endure it or blame them because it was their fault? Did He shrug His shoulders and simply assure them He would be with them but do nothing to heal them or did He just give them a mysterious runaround? None of the above. 

We see the Jesus of the bible “heal all who were sick” Matt 8:16 and He give us authority to do the same, even greater, Luke 10:19. 

The right picture of Jesus helps us see ourselves right(eous)

A biblical view of Jesus helps us to see that “Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers” 1 John 5:2

And when we see that it’s His will that we prosper in all respects, we also see that “His divine power has bestowed on us [absolutely] everything necessary for [a dynamic spiritual] life and godliness, through true and personal knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.” 2 Peter 1:3 (AMP)

So, why can’t we see Jesus clearly sometimes?

It may be that we have an incorrect view of Jesus. We may be unable to see Jesus clearly because a veil (or a mask) lies over our heart. 

“14 But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. 15 But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart” 2 Cor 3:14-16

When we look in the mirror, instead of seeing a reflection of Jesus that arises from within us as new creation beings, we may instead still be looking at a reflection of the masks that we bring with us from our old life. 

Are we still wearing a veil?

Psychologists tell us that all human beings seek the security of feeling loved, a sense of significance that comes with acceptance and belonging, and satisfaction of success that comes from being good enough. Perhaps you struggle with one of the following lies.

• I’m unloved - do you tend to feel abandoned and unwanted? Do you believe that “nobody wants me”?

• I’m not good enough – do you tend to feel rejected and not good enough, that you always have to prove yourself? Do you believe that “everyone is unhappy with me”?

• I am alone and don’t belong – do you tend to feel detached and different, not wanting to commit or form strong attachments? Do you believe “I don’t need anyone”?

But there is hope. “But whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away” I Cor 3:16 

How does the Father see Jesus? 

Interestingly, God the Father addressed these exact same areas when He spoke over Jesus at His baptism (and who until that point, arguably had accomplished virtually nothing related to the earthly ministry He was called). 

“…and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.’” Matt 3:17

The Father called Jesus His beloved, He spoke belonging and acceptance of Jesus by referring to Him as His own, and declared that He was already pleased with Jesus, that the Son’s performance had nothing to do with the Father’s good pleasure in Him.

How does Jesus see you? 

Does Jesus not see us the same way as the Father sees Him? After all, "just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.” John 15:9. And “because as He is, so also are we in this world.”1 John 4:17. Finally, “We love, because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19

So how does Father see you?

We should hear the Father say of us “this is My Beloved son or daughter, in whom I am well-pleased”. We should be declaring that

• God loves me as He loves Jesus, “so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.” John 17:23

• Christ has qualified me and is well-pleased with me, so we should be “giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.” Col 1:12

• I belong to Christ and accepted in the Beloved, for “…He hath made us accepted in the beloved” Eph 1:6 and “so then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household.” Eph 2:19

As believers, we are called to “put on the new self, according to the image of the One…” Eph 4:24. That means, when we look into the mirror, we should see not a veiled mask of lies but an image of Jesus, a reflection of our new creation self.

But how do we put on the new self? How do we see Jesus and ourselves differently?

For me personally, attending Forward church and listening to Pastor Clint Byars has been a revelation. For the first time I understand the need for heart transformation that takes the knowledge of grace in my mind and makes it real in my life. I am discovering that it is through the heart I am empowered to systematically appropriate grace by faith and daily experience victory, practically, actively and consistently. 

So how do we get this faith “into” our heart? From light to life.

For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.” 2 Tim 1:5. How did Timothy kindle afresh the faith that Paul prayed over him through the laying on of his hands. 

As we continue reading, we see that it has “now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and [brought life - Photizo] and immortality to [light - Photizo] through the gospel” 2 Tim 1:10

It’s interesting that the same Greek word “photizo” is used to bring “life” to “light”. It is as if Paul is saying the life of Christ is and through the light of Christ. 

And the light of Christ is more than just head knowledge or more bible study but something deeper and more profound, more splendid and wonderful. 

Remember when “God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light” back in Genesis 1:3. Now we know that “out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks”, Luke 6:45. So if God spoke light which brought life and His words emanate from His heart, it behooves us to know what’s in His heart if we are to experience that same transformative life. 

And from love to light to life. For God is love.

The heart of God is love.

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. …In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins… So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is LOVE… We love because He first loved us”  1 John 4:7,10,16,19

And we are transformed when we look at His love for us

If we are to experience transformation, as we gaze upon Jesus, we need to know His heart for us. “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.” 2 Cor 3:18

So, when we look upon Jesus, when we behold Him, what are we seeing? We see what He told Nathanael, that He has seen us even before we saw Him. When we look at Jesus, we see His love for us. And that is how our lives are transformed. By beholding and experiencing His transformative love for us in our heart.

And it happens in our heart.

When we arrived from the grey skies of Seattle to the warm sunshine of Atlanta, we were still broken and bruised as a family. A great depression had befallen us; my wife’s kid brother whom she loved dearly, a successful youth pastor and only in his early twenties, had committed suicide a couple of years prior. We had been trying unsuccessfully to have another child for a few years and our finances were rapidly coming to an end after being out of work and at my wits end having tried everything that I knew.

Finding (or rather, quite providentially stumbling upon) Forward Church, a month later my wife fell pregnant as the promises of God became alive and began to bear fruit. And a couple of months later, after nearly a year without a job, when I was down to my last three dollars in the bank, visiting my sister in Toronto, I sat at a coffee shop in called Second Cup. It’s amazing how when you are down to your last three dollars how clearly you begin to hear from Jesus! There is something about desperation that causes us to let go of our own self effort and lean on Him. 

And at that point, sitting at Second Cup, I knew I had to listen to Clint’s sermons a second time. I pulled up Forward Church’s Facebook livestream. But this time I listened from my heart. And as Clint preached about releasing offence against Jesus, about experiencing Jesus not in your head but in your heart, about the quantum nature of God’s love and how every particle of His love washes over us like endless waves of grace within us (I have studied quantum physics at university but had never understood it so clearly as preached by Clint at Forward Church); there were so many nuggets of deep thought in his sermons. 

And I sat there, doing the exercises he recommended, allowing my heart to connect with the love of God on the inside. (See this blog for the exercises Sebastian is referring to)

It’s amazing how much we listen to God with our heads but so rarely with our hearts.

And I can’t explain it, but a wave of God’s love just washed over me and I just knew our financial problems were over. And within a few days, a new wonderful job appeared, and in addition a rush of finances flooded in from a various sources, and most importantly I could sense, for the first time, that transformation in my heart, just like when I had gotten saved for the first time some twenty or so years ago. 

For it is always with the heart that we believe (Rom 10:9) and receive.

Emotionally Invest in the Word of God for Transformation

Knowledge doesn't produce transformation. Truth alone doesn't produce transformation. But when you internalize truth to the point of invoking an emotional response, you have engaged true mind renewal that can and will produce deep, healthy, profound and lasting transformation. So how do you emotionally invest in the Word of God? Look at Joshua 1:8.

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”

— Joshua 1:8 ESV

Joshua was the young man that took over for Moses. Joshua had watched Moses slay giants, speak to God on a mountain top and strike a rock which gushed water for millions of his people. Joshua had to feel a bit inadequate to take over for such a mighty leader so God spoke to him directly. God's instruction wasn't what to do, it was what to think.

"The Law" on this side of the cross is essentially wisdom and instruction. Through the New Testament writers, God continually reminds to keep our minds on Jesus and to put on our new identity in Christ. While there is direct instruction for the New Covenant believer, the instruction we are to engage in the most is mind renewal in our identities in Christ. It's hard for us to accept sometimes but changing the way we think is the only prescription to make actual changes in our lives. Performance based religion makes us think that we change by behaving better but changed behavior only lasts once our thoughts are in alignment with truth.

If we look a little closer at Joshua 1:8 we can see a process:

1. Keep His instruction in your mouth

2. Meditate on it day and night

3. Do what is written

4. Then you will be prosperous and have success

You can be prosperous and succeed when you follow this process.

Where would you like to experience prosperity and success? How about your marriage, your emotions, with temptation, in parenting, in ministry or even financially.

Find God's instruction that relates to the area you'd like to prosper and succeed then engage this process. It's easy to speak God's instruction and think about it but to meditate on it requires commitment. Not just a time commitment but an emotional commitment.

Keep in mind that transformation is the result of mind renewal. Personally, I see a correlation between Romans 12:2 and Joshua 1:8. They're both saying the same thing, Joshua just gives a little more detail about the process.

God instructs us to speak His Word, think about His Word and emotionally experience (meditate on) His Word. He knows that this is the process of transformation. So I have to ask you, when you meditate on His Word, do you feel it? Do you see yourself in it? Do you gain insight on how to act on it? Are you uplifted and encouraged to have hope for a better future? Does the Word of God touch you in your inner man?

If not, it's time to get to know God a little closer. If you're a believer you're already one with him but you may not presently be experiencing your relationship with him. It's up to you. Take His instruction and do something more with it than just read it.

List of in Christ, in Him Scriptures to establish your heart in your new creation identity in Christ

“God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.”

— 2 Corinthians 5:21

You are a new creation in Christ. Through Christ, God has forgiven you. He has washed you with the blood of Christ to make you holy. He has given you a new heart. He has placed His spirit in you. He has given you a new heart that knows how to follow Him. He has made you acceptable forever. He has delivered you from the power of darkness and translated you into the kingdom of His dear son Jesus. He has given you His kingdom as an inheritance. He has hidden you in Him with Christ. He has seated you with Christ in Heavenly places.

He has given you power to do what Jesus did. He works with you, confirming His Word. He gives you wisdom and strength. He gives you the power to get wealth. He has made you great and precious promises so you would be a partaker of His divine nature. This is your new creation identity in Christ. This is the new you or the new man! This resource book will help you put on the new self, which is created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Use these passages to renew your mind to the truth that you are seated with Christ in Heavenly places. Personalize these passages. See yourself through your new identity in Christ. Meditate on each one until you do not just believe them but also feel them. While we don't live by feelings, we don't really believe a truth that we don't feel. Use these passages to become convinced of and confident in your new creation reality.

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The following is an example of the lists in In Christ: A Meditation Devotional in Your New Creation Identity. Click to order. Included is a large list of in Christ, in him, and many other identity passages.

IN CHRIST

Romans 3:24
All (believers) are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace, through the redemption which is [provided] in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:11
Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:1
Therefore, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.

Romans 12:5
So we, numerous as we are, are one body in Christ (the Messiah) and individually we are parts one of another [mutually dependent on one another].

1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church (assembly) of God which is in Corinth, to those consecrated and purified and made holy in Christ Jesus, [who are] selected and called to be saints (God’s people), together with all those who in any place call upon and give honor to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours.

1 Corinthians 1:4
I thank my God at all times for you because of the grace of God which was bestowed on you in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 1:30
But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, [revealed to us a knowledge of the divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as] our Righteousness [thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God], and our Consecration [making us pure and holy], and our Redemption [providing our ransom from eternal penalty for sin].

1 Corinthians 15:22
For just as [because of their union of nature] in Adam all people die, so also [by virtue of their union of nature] shall all in Christ be made alive.

2 Corinthians 1:21
But it is God Who confirms and makes us steadfast and establishes us [in joint fellowship] with you in Christ, and has consecrated and anointed us [enduing us with the gifts of the Holy Spirit].

2 Corinthians 2:14
But thanks be to God, Who in Christ always leads us in triumph [as trophies of Christ's victory] and through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere.

2 Corinthians 3:14
In fact, their minds were grown hard and calloused [they had become dull and had lost the power of understanding]; for until this present day, when the Old Testament (the old covenant) is being read, that same veil still lies [on their hearts], not being lifted [to reveal] that in Christ it is made void and done away.

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!

2 Corinthians 5:19
It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor).

Galatians 2:4
[My precaution was] because of false brethren who had been secretly smuggled in [to the Christian brotherhood]; they had slipped in to spy on our liberty and the freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might again bring us into bondage [under the Law of Moses].

Galatians 2:16
Yet we know that a man is justified or reckoned righteous and in right standing with God not by works of the Law, but [only] through faith and [absolute] reliance on and adherence to and trust in Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). [Therefore] even we [ourselves] have believed on Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law [for we cannot be justified by any observance of the ritual of the Law given by Moses], because by keeping legal rituals and by works no human being can ever be justified (declared righteous and put in right standing with God).

Galatians 3:26
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

Galatians 3:28
There is [now no distinction] neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 5:6
For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love.

Galatians 6:15
For neither is circumcision [now] of any importance, nor uncircumcision, but [only] a new creation [the result of a new birth and a new nature in Christ Jesus, the Messiah].

Ephesians 1:3
May blessing (praise, laudation, and eulogy) be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual (given by the Holy Spirit) blessing in the heavenly realm!

Ephesians 1:4
Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.

Ephesians 1:10
[He planned] for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages to unify all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, [both] things in heaven and things on the earth.

Ephesians 1:12
So that we who first hoped in Christ [who first put our confidence in Him have been destined and appointed to] live for the praise of His glory!

Ephesians 2:6
And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

Ephesians 2:7
He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in [His] kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].

Ephesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus, you who once were [so] far away, through (by, in) the blood of Christ have been brought near.

Ephesians 3:6
[It is this:] that the Gentiles are now to be fellow heirs [with the Jews], members of the same body and joint partakers [sharing] in the same divine promise in Christ through [their acceptance of] the glad tidings (the Gospel).

Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.

Philippians 4:7
And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:13
I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency].

Philippians 4:19
And my God will liberally supply (fill to the full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1:28
Him we preach and proclaim, warning and admonishing everyone and instructing everyone in all wisdom comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God), that we may present every person mature (full-grown, fully initiated, complete, and perfect) in Christ (the Anointed One).

1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first.

1 Thessalonians 5:18
Thank [God] in everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful and give thanks], for this is the will of God for you [who are] in Christ Jesus [the Revealer and Mediator of that will].

1 Timothy 1:14
And the grace (unmerited favor and blessing) of our Lord [actually] flowed out superabundantly and beyond measure for me, accompanied by faith and love that are [to be realized] in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an apostle (special messenger) of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 1:9
[For it is He] Who delivered and saved us and called us with a calling in itself holy and leading to holiness [to a life of consecration, a vocation of holiness]; [He did it] not because of anything of merit that we have done, but because of and to further His own purpose and grace (unmerited favor) which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began [eternal ages ago].

2 Timothy 1:13
Hold fast and follow the pattern of wholesome and sound teaching which you have heard from me, in [all] the faith and love which are [for us] in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2:1
So you, my son, be strong (strengthened inwardly) in the grace (spiritual blessing) that is [to be found only] in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I [am ready to] persevere and stand my ground with patience and endure everything for the sake of the elect [God's chosen], so that they too may obtain [the] salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with [the reward of] eternal glory.

2 Timothy 3:15
And how from your childhood you have had a knowledge of and been acquainted with the sacred Writings, which are able to instruct you and give you the understanding for salvation which comes through faith in Christ Jesus [through the leaning of the entire human personality on God in Christ Jesus in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness].

Philemon 1:6
[And I pray] that the participation in and sharing of your faith may produce and promote full recognition and appreciation and understanding and precise knowledge of every good [thing] that is ours in [our identification with] Christ Jesus [and unto His glory].

1 Peter 5:10
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace [Who imparts all blessing and favor], Who has called you to His [own] eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will Himself complete and make you what you ought to be, establish and ground you securely, and strengthen, and settle you.

IN HIM

John 1:4
In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men.

John 3:15
In order that everyone who believes in Him [who cleaves to Him, trusts Him, and relies on Him] may not perish, but have eternal life and [actually] live forever!

John 3:16
For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.

Acts 17:28
For in Him we live and move and have our being; as even some of your [own] poets have said, for we are also His offspring.

1 Corinthians 1:5
[So] that in Him in every respect you were enriched, in full power and readiness of speech [to speak of your faith] and complete knowledge and illumination [to give you full insight into its meaning].

2 Corinthians 1:20
For as many as are the promises of God, they all find their Yes [answer] in Him [Christ]. For this reason we also utter the Amen (so be it) to God through Him [in His Person and by His agency] to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].

Ephesians 1:7
In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor.

Ephesians 1:11
In Him we also were made [God's] heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance; for we had been foreordained (chosen and appointed beforehand) in accordance with His purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His [own] will.

Ephesians 1:13
In Him you also who have heard the Word of Truth, the glad tidings (Gospel) of your salvation, and have believed in and adhered to and relied on Him, were stamped with the seal of the long-promised Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 2:21
In Him the whole structure is joined (bound, welded) together harmoniously, and it continues to rise (grow, increase) into a holy temple in the Lord [a sanctuary dedicated, consecrated, and sacred to the presence of the Lord].

Ephesians 2:22
In Him [and in fellowship with one another] you yourselves also are being built up [into this structure] with the rest, to form a fixed abode (dwelling place) of God in (by, through) the Spirit.

Philippians 3:9
And that I may [actually] be found and known as in Him, not having any [self-achieved] righteousness that can be called my own, based on my obedience to the Law’s demands (ritualistic uprightness and supposed right standing with God thus acquired), but possessing that [genuine righteousness] which comes through faith in Christ (the Anointed One), the [truly] right standing with God, which comes from God by [saving] faith.

Colossians 1:16
For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him.

Colossians 1:17
And He Himself existed before all things, and in Him all things consist (cohere, are held together).

Colossians 2:3
In Him all the treasures of [divine] wisdom (comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God) and [all the riches of spiritual] knowledge and enlightenment are stored up and lie hidden.

Colossians 2:7
Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving.

Colossians 2:10
And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead--Father, Son and Holy Spirit--and reach full spiritual stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority [of every angelic principality and power].

Colossians 2:11
In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but in a [spiritual] circumcision [performed by] Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh (the whole corrupt, carnal nature with its passions and lusts).

Colossians 2:15
[God] disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged against us and made a bold display and public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him and in it [the cross].

1 John 2:5
But he who keeps (treasures) His Word [who bears in mind His precepts, who observes His message in its entirety], truly in him has the love of and for God been perfected (completed, reached maturity). By this we may perceive (know, recognize, and be sure) that we are in Him.

1 John 2:6
Whoever says he abides in Him ought [as a personal debt] to walk and conduct himself in the same way in which He walked and conducted Himself.

1 John 2:8
Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true (is realized) in Him and in you, because the darkness (moral blindness) is clearing away and the true Light (the revelation of God in Christ) is already shining.

1 John 2:27
But as for you, the anointing (the sacred appointment, the unction) which you received from Him abides [permanently] in you; [so] then you have no need that anyone should instruct you. But just as His anointing teaches you concerning everything and is true and is no falsehood, so you must abide in (live in, never depart from) Him [being rooted in Him, knit to Him], just as [His anointing] has taught you [to do].

1 John 2:28
And now, little children, abide (live, remain permanently) in Him, so that when He is made visible, we may have and enjoy perfect confidence (boldness, assurance) and not be ashamed and shrink from Him at His coming.

1 John 3:3
And everyone who has this hope [resting] on Him cleanses (purifies) himself just as He is pure (chaste, undefiled, guiltless).

1 John 3:6
No one who abides in Him [who lives and remains in communion with and in obedience to Him--deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] commits (practices) sin. No one who [habitually] sins has either seen or known Him [recognized, perceived, or understood Him, or has had an experiential acquaintance with Him].

1 John 3:24
All who keep His commandments [who obey His orders and follow His plan, live and continue to live, to stay and] abide in Him, and He in them. [They let Christ be a home to them and they are the home of Christ.] And by this we know and understand and have the proof that He [really] lives and makes His home in us: by the [Holy] Spirit Whom He has given us.

1 John 4:13
By this we come to know (perceive, recognize, and understand) that we abide (live and remain) in Him and He in us: because He has given (imparted) to us of His [Holy] Spirit.

1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us.

1 John 5:15
And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.

1 John 5:20
And we [have seen and] know [positively] that the Son of God has [actually] come to this world and has given us understanding and insight [progressively] to perceive (recognize) and come to know better and more clearly Him Who is true; and we are in Him Who is true–in His Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah). This [Man] is the true God and Life eternal.

1 Peter 1:8
Without having seen Him, you love Him; though you do not [even] now see Him, you believe in Him and exult and thrill with inexpressible and glorious (triumphant, heavenly) joy.

THROUGH CHRIST

Romans 5:1
Therefore, since we are justified (acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God) through faith, let us [grasp the fact that we] have [the peace of reconciliation to hold and to enjoy] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

Romans 5:11
Not only so, but we also rejoice and exultingly glory in God [in His love and perfection] through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we have now received and enjoy [our] reconciliation.

Romans 5:15
But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many.

Romans 5:17
For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God's] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

Romans 6:23
For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 7:4
Likewise, my brethren, you have undergone death as to the Law through the [crucified] body of Christ, so that now you may belong to Another, to Him Who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory [making us conquerors] through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:18
But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself [received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself] and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation [that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him].

Galatians 3:14
To the end that through [their receiving] Christ Jesus, the blessing [promised] to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we through faith might [all] receive [the realization of] the promise of the [Holy] Spirit.

Galatians 4:7
Therefore, you are no longer a slave (bond servant) but a son; and if a son, then [it follows that you are] an heir by the aid of God, through Christ.

Ephesians 1:5
For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent].

Philippians 1:11
May you abound in and be filled with the fruits of righteousness (of right standing with God and right doing) which come through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One), to the honor and praise of God [that His glory may be both manifested and recognized].

Hebrews 13:20-21
v. 20 Now may the God of peace [Who is the Author and the Giver of peace], Who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood [that sealed, ratified] the everlasting agreement (covenant, testament),
v. 21 Strengthen (complete, perfect) and make you what you ought to be and equip you with everything good that you may carry out His will; [while He Himself] works in you and accomplishes that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ (the Messiah); to Whom be the glory forever and ever (to the ages of the ages). Amen (so be it).

1 Peter 2:5
[Come] and, like living stones, be yourselves built [into] a spiritual house, for a holy (dedicated, consecrated) priesthood, to offer up [those] spiritual sacrifices [that are] acceptable and pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

THROUGH HIM

John 1:3
All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being.

John 3:17
For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.

Acts 13:39
And that through Him everyone who believes [who acknowledges Jesus as his Savior and devotes himself to Him] is absolved (cleared and freed) from every charge from which he could not be justified and freed by the Law of Moses and given right standing with God.

Romans 1:5
It is through Him that we have received grace (God’s unmerited favor) and [our] apostleship to promote obedience to the faith and make disciples for His name’s sake among all the nations.

Romans 5:2
Through Him also we have [our] access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God’s favor) in which we [firmly and safely] stand. And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God.

Romans 8:37
Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.

Romans 11:36
For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. [For all things originate with Him and come from Him; all things live through Him, and all things center in and tend to consummate and to end in Him.] To Him be glory forever! Amen (so be it).

Ephesians 2:18
For it is through Him that we both [whether far off or near] now have an introduction (access) by one [Holy] Spirit to the Father [so that we are able to approach Him].

Colossians 1:20
And God purposed that through (by the service, the intervention of) Him [the Son] all things should be completely reconciled back to Himself, whether on earth or in heaven, as through Him, [the Father] made peace by means of the blood of His cross.

Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do [no matter what it is] in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and in [dependence upon] His Person, giving praise to God the Father through Him.

Hebrews 7:25
Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He is always living to make petition to God and intercede with Him and intervene for them.

Hebrews 13:15
Through Him, therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name.

1 Peter 1:21
Through Him you believe in (adhere to, rely on) God, Who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him honor and glory, so that your faith and hope are [centered and rest] in God.

1 John 4:9
In this the love of God was made manifest (displayed) where we are concerned: in that God sent His Son, the only begotten or unique [Son], into the world so that we might live through Him.

BY WHOM

1 Corinthians 8:6
Yet for us there is [only] one God, the Father, Who is the Source of all things and for Whom we [have life], and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through and by Whom are all things and through and by Whom we [ourselves exist].

THROUGH WHOM

Acts 6:7
And the message of God kept on spreading, and the number of disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem; and [besides] a large number of the priests were obedient to the faith [in Jesus as the Messiah, through Whom is obtained eternal salvation in the kingdom of God].

2 Corinthians 1:24
Not that we have dominion [over you] and lord it over your faith, but [rather that we work with you as] fellow laborers [to promote] your joy, for in [your] faith (in your strong and welcome conviction or belief that Jesus is the Messiah, through Whom we obtain eternal salvation in the kingdom of God) you stand firm.

Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to glory [in anything or anyone] except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) through Whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world!

Hebrews 1:2
[But] in the last of these days He has spoken to us in [the person of a] Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time [He made, produced, built, operated, and arranged them in order].

FROM WHOM

Colossians 2:19
And not holding fast to the Head, from Whom the entire body, supplied and knit together by means of its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

BY HIMSELF

Galatians 3:13
Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified).

Hebrews 1:3
He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God's] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the divine Majesty on high.

Hebrews 9:26
For then would He often have had to suffer [over and over again] since the foundation of the world. But as it now is, He has once for all at the consummation and close of the ages appeared to put away and abolish sin by His sacrifice [of Himself].

BY HIS BLOOD

Hebrews 9:12
He went once for all into the [Holy of] Holies [of heaven], not by virtue of the blood of goats and calves [by which to make reconciliation between God and man], but His own blood, having found and secured a complete redemption (an everlasting release for us).

Hebrews 10:19
Therefore, brethren, since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the [Holy of] Holies [by the power and virtue] in the blood of Jesus.

1 John 1:7
But if we [really] are living and walking in the Light, as He [Himself] is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses (removes) us from all sin and guilt [keeps us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations].

OF CHRIST

Romans 7:4
Likewise, my brethren, you have undergone death as to the Law through the [crucified] body of Christ, so that now you may belong to Another, to Him Who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Romans 8:9
But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God].

Romans 10:17
So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself).

1 Corinthians 2:16
For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart.

1 Corinthians 6:15
Do you not see and know that your bodies are members (bodily parts) of Christ (the Messiah)? Am I therefore to take the parts of Christ and make [them] parts of a prostitute? Never! Never!

1 Corinthians 10:16
The cup of blessing [of wine at the Lord's Supper] upon which we ask [God's] blessing, does it not mean [that in drinking it] we participate in and share a fellowship (a communion) in the blood of Christ (the Messiah)? The bread which we break, does it not mean [that in eating it] we participate in and share a fellowship (a communion) in the body of Christ?

2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which exhales] unto God, [discernible alike] among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ controls and urges and impels us, because we are of the opinion and conviction that [if] One died for all, then all died.

Ephesians 3:19
[That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!

Colossians 3:15
And let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state] to which as [members of Christ's] one body you were also called [to live]. And be thankful (appreciative), [giving praise to God always].

2 Thessalonians 3:5
May the Lord direct your hearts into [realizing and showing] the love of God and into the steadfastness and patience of Christ and in waiting for His return.

Hebrews 9:14
How much more surely shall the blood of Christ, Who by virtue of [His] eternal Spirit [His own preexistent divine personality] has offered Himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, purify our consciences from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the [ever] living God?

1 Peter 4:1
So, since Christ suffered in the flesh for us, for you, arm yourselves with the same thought and purpose [patiently to suffer rather than fail to please God]. For whoever has suffered in the flesh [having the mind of Christ] is done with [intentional] sin [has stopped pleasing himself and the world, and pleases God].

2 Peter 1:8
For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

1 John 3:24
All who keep His commandments [who obey His orders and follow His plan, live and continue to live, to stay and] abide in Him, and He in them. [They let Christ be a home to them and they are the home of Christ.] And by this we know and understand and have the proof that He [really] lives and makes His home in us: by the [Holy] Spirit Whom He has given us.

2 John 1:9
Anyone who runs on ahead [of God] and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ [who is not content with what He taught] does not have God; but he who continues to live in the doctrine (teaching) of Christ [does have God], he has both the Father and the Son.

OF HIM

Ephesians 4:16
For because of Him the whole body (the church, in all its various parts), closely joined and firmly knit together by the joints and ligaments with which it is supplied, when each part [with power adapted to its need] is working properly [in all its functions], grows to full maturity, building itself up in love.

FROM HIM

1 John 1:5
And this is the message [the message of promise] which we have heard from Him and now are reporting to you: God is Light, and there is no darkness in Him at all [no, not in any way].

1 John 2:27
But as for you, the anointing (the sacred appointment, the unction) which you received from Him abides [permanently] in you; [so] then you have no need that anyone should instruct you. But just as His anointing teaches you concerning everything and is true and is no falsehood, so you must abide in (live in, never depart from) Him [being rooted in Him, knit to Him], just as [His anointing] has taught you [to do].

FROM WHOM

Colossians 2:19
And not holding fast to the Head, from Whom the entire body, supplied and knit together by means of its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

WITH CHRIST

Romans 6:8
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him.

Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation).

Colossians 2:13
And you who were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature), [God] brought to life together with [Christ], having [freely] forgiven us all our transgressions.

Colossians 2:20
If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things and have escaped from the world’s crude and elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live as if you still belong to the world? [Why do you submit to rules and regulations?-such as]

Colossians 3:1
If then you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection from the dead], aim at and seek the [rich, eternal treasures] that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:3
For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.

WITH HIM

Romans 6:4
We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life.

Romans 6:6
We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin.

Romans 6:8
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him.

Romans 8:32
He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things?

2 Corinthians 13:4
For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He goes on living by the power of God. And though we too are weak in Him [as He was humanly weak], yet in dealing with you [we shall show ourselves] alive and strong in [fellowship with] Him by the power of God.

Colossians 2:12
[Thus you were circumcised when] you were buried with Him in [your] baptism, in which you were also raised with Him [to a new life] through [your] faith in the working of God [as displayed] when He raised Him up from the dead.

Colossians 3:4
When Christ, Who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in [the splendor of His] glory.

2 Timothy 2:11
The saying is sure and worthy of confidence: If we have died with Him, we shall also live with Him.

2 Timothy 2:12
If we endure, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny and disown and reject Him, He will also deny and disown and reject us.

BY ME

John 6:57
Just as the living Father sent Me and I live by (through, because of) the Father, even so whoever continues to feed on Me [whoever takes Me for his food and is nourished by Me] shall [in his turn] live through and because of Me.

John 14:6
Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.

IN ME

John 6:47
I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, he who believes in Me [who adheres to, trusts in, relies on, and has faith in Me] has (now possesses) eternal life.

John 6:56
He who feeds on My flesh and drinks My blood dwells continually in Me, and I [in like manner dwell continually] in him.

John 10:38
But if I do them, even though you do not believe Me or have faith in Me, [at least] believe the works and have faith in what I do, in order that you may know and understand [clearly] that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father [One with Him].

John 12:46
I have come as a Light into the world, so that whoever believes in Me [whoever cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me] may not continue to live in darkness.

John 14:20
At that time [when that day comes] you will know [for yourselves] that I am in My Father, and you [are] in Me, and I [am] in you.

John 15:4
Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me.

John 15:5
I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.

John 15:7
If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

John 16:33
I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]

John 17:21
That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me.

John 17:23
I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and [definitely] recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them [even] as You have loved Me.

Acts 26:18
To open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may thus receive forgiveness and release from their sins and a place and portion among those who are consecrated and purified by faith in Me.

IN MY LOVE

John 15:9
I have loved you, [just] as the Father has loved Me; abide in My love [continue in His love with Me].

IN MY (HIS) NAME

Matthew 18:20
For wherever two or three are gathered (drawn together as My followers) in (into) My name, there I AM in the midst of them.

Mark 9:39
But Jesus said, “Do not restrain or hinder or forbid him; for no one who does a mighty work in My name will soon afterward be able to speak evil of Me.”

Mark 16:17-18
17 And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe: in My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages. 18 They will pick up serpents; and [even] if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well.

John 14:13
And I will do [I Myself will grant] whatever you ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], so that the Father may be glorified and extolled in (through) the Son.

John 14:14
[Yes] I will grant [I Myself will do for you] whatever you shall ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM].

John 15:16
You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you [I have planted you], that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit may be lasting [that it may remain, abide], so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], He may give it to you.

John 16:23
And when that time comes, you will ask nothing of Me [you will need to ask Me no questions]. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that My Father will grant you whatever you ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM].

John 16:24
Up to this time you have not asked a [single] thing in My Name [as presenting all that I AM]; but now ask and keep on asking and you will receive, so that your joy (gladness, delight) may be full and complete.

1 Corinthians 6:11
And such some of you were [once]. But you were washed clean (purified by a complete atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin), and you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed), and you were justified [pronounced righteous, by trusting] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God.

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• IN THE BELOVED

• IN THE LORD

• IN WHOM

• BY CHRIST

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