Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Today we will begin to pursue a subject into which angels long to search. It is beyond all human understanding. The sacred journey upon which I wish to embark with you today is exploring the precious gift I have given you of being “IN CHRIST.” I gave revelation to My apostle Paul about this but it was still to him the “unfathomable riches of Christ.” It took him up to the third Heaven where I dwell but even there he saw and heard what cannot be repeated in mortal tongues. All he could say was that it happened to him not as he had been but as “a man in Christ.”
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago, whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows, such a man was caught up to the third heaven. And I know how such a man, whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows, was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak. 2 Corinthians 12:2-4.
Once you know what it means that you are “in Christ,” though even now you cannot know the whole of it, nothing is the same, all is new.
Paul prayed that somehow you could get a grip on this so you too could never be the same again but a new creation in Christ, for Christ is the manifestation of My love for you.
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:14-21.
What no one under the law of Moses could obtain I have now given you freely and perfectly in Christ, that is, the gift of righteousness, My righteousness accounted to you IN CHRIST. Your sins accounted to Him and His righteousness accounted to you giving you blessed assurance of resurrection and eternal life. Where do you find this? You know. IN CHRIST.
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:21.
In Adam, you rejected Me and wandered away from your source, you became sin and the wages of sin is death. Adam did not just sin, he became sin to the core of his being. No thought of his was anything but evil and his descendants were trapped in that prison of sin that they could not pay their way out of. But there was still hope of a new creation. And it begun with the only man on earth that still had the spark of eternity burning in his heart and he walked with Me.
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundredcubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish. But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. Genesis 6:13-19.
So began the journey back to Me sealed in the ark. And that was a foreshadowing of what it means to be IN CHRIST. There you are shielded, covered, and made new. For Noah in the ark, everything became new and no evil could touch him. He was in the secret place of the Most High. And being there in Me raised him above the flood, so he floated above and not beneath the peril, lust, and death that is in the world as the wages of sin.
Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. Genesis 7:17-18.
He had found favor, grace in My eyes, by walking in love with Me, and it brought him safely though condemnation to the glorious freedom of My children. He became heir of the world. He and his family. All was for him and the first thing he did was build an altar to thank Me with the burnt offering. And I smelled the sweet odor of Christ and saw the day in the smoke of that flame when My Son would die so you could all live in Him. I so love every one of you that I gave you My Son to pay your judgment by giving His eternal life in the flesh once for all for the one Adam murdered once for all. It is now finished and you who have received My gift of Jesus are in Him, forgiven and blessed forever.
And you are all descendants of Noah. But one son was more attuned to Me than the other two. And his name was Shem, which means “Name,” and through his line came the Messiah according to the flesh. And that seed of the woman was the Name above every other name. His Name shall be called “Wonderful.”
And of a descendant of Shem, a man I named Abraham, the father of many nations, walked with Me in faith and love and My priest Melchizedek, My Holy Spirit, met Abraham with bread and wine, the Covenant meal ahead of time, and blessed Abraham as possessor of Heaven and earth, and IN Christ that same blessing is on you. The Blessing of Abraham that came from Me and the anointing of the Priest who anointed Jesus with Me as the great High Priest of the New Covenant, the Third Amendment and Restatement of the Covenant I first made with Noah when he came out of the ark.
And your life is hidden now in Me in Christ just as Noah’s was hidden with Me in the ark and when he stepped out, he was heir of the world, but with Abraham you are now the heirs of Heaven and earth, for My Son has joined them as one. I taught Abraham the gospel ahead of time but he did not know the half of the wondrous things I would do in Christ, but he found out as he waited for Him to open the gates of Heaven from the place of Paradise that I called the Bosom of Abraham. Eden went under the earth but now all are in Heaven who belong to My Son. When you believed in the good news of your salvation I sealed you IN Christ by My Holy Spirit (Melchizedek) and there is no snatching out of His hand which is in Mine. We are One. And we have made you one in us.
I am the God who does wonders, mysterious and precious things past finding out. I am always working and you do not know the whole of it, but it is all for the benefit of those who would be and now are in Christ.
In Christ is the best place to be and you can be there no matter where you are in the world. It is the mystery of Christ in you, just as you are in Him, your hope of glory. In Christ you become a temple of the Holy Spirit and are holy. I in Christ, Christ in you, you in Christ, Christ in Me.
I love you. Never see yourself as anywhere but in Christ for that is how I see you. I make you beautiful in Him. He makes it as if sin had never been, only better.