All We Have in Christ

All We Have In Christ

I recently preached a sermon on “How To Keep Our Joy” at Creekside Community Church.  (You can listen to the sermon here.  The title and preacher name do not match but it is my sermon.)  The source of our joy is all we have in Christ.  (Someone may argue our joy is having Christ, that is true but the joy we have from having Christ is grounded in all we have in Christ, in other words all we receive from being in Christ.)  When we lose our joy we lose sight or get distracted from all we have in Christ.  Below is a list of verses telling us all we have in Christ.  It is a soul exalting and heart thrilling list, one that causes us to praise Christ and our heavenly Father for such lavish giving.  Revel in the glory of what we have in Christ!

For a pdf file of these verses go to http://bit.ly/InChristverses.

Application

1. Go through the list of what we have in Christ and identify the one that means the most to you.  Use it to get your eyes back on Jesus.  Write it on a note card and place it in a visible spot where you most likely will lose your joy.  
2. Be ready to help someone who has lost their joy.  We all need our friends and family to help us when we lose our joy.  Be ready to help them regain their joy by getting their eyes back on Jesus.  
3. Sing.  Nothing restores joy like singing praises to our Savior or singing about Him.  Sing hymns, spiritual songs, even Christmas carols to refocus on Jesus.

In Christ

ESV Romans 3:24  and (we) are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

ESV Romans 6:11  So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

ESV Romans 6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

ESV Romans 8:1  There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

ESV Romans 8:2  For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

ESV Romans 8:38 & 39  For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

ESV Romans 12:5  so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

ESV 2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

ESV 2 Corinthians 5:19  that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

ESV Galatians 2:16  yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

ESV Galatians 3:14  so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

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

ESV Ephesians 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

ESV Ephesians 1:12  so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.

ESV Ephesians 1:20  that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,

ESV Ephesians 2:6  and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

ESV Ephesians 2:7  so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

ESV Ephesians 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

ESV Ephesians 2:13  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

ESV Ephesians 3:6  This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

ESV Ephesians 3:11&12  This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.

ESV Ephesians 4:32  Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

ESV Philippians 4:19  And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

ESV 1 Thessalonians 4:16  For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

In Him

(Romans 10:11 ESV)  For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."

(2 Corinthians 1:20 ESV)  For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.

(2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV)  For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

(Ephesians 1:4 ESV)  even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

(Ephesians 1:7 ESV)  In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

(Ephesians 1:10 ESV)  as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

(Ephesians 1:11 ESV)  In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

(Ephesians 1:13 ESV)  In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

(Ephesians 2:22 ESV)  In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

(1 Peter 1:8 ESV)  Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,