IN CHRIST

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IN CHRIST Colossians 127 26-15
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I say this in order that no one may delude you
with plausible arguments
- Colossians 24
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See to it that no one takes you captive by
philosophy and empty deceit, according to human
tradition, according to the elemental spirits of
the world, and not according to Christ
- Colossians 28
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• Jesus Christ is preeminent over all creation,
  over human rulers and cosmic powers

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• Jesus Christ is preeminent over all creation,
  over human rulers and cosmic powers
• God has worked through Christ to secure
  redemption and reconciliation for all who put
  their faith in him

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• Jesus Christ is preeminent over all creation,
  over human rulers and cosmic powers
• God has worked through Christ to secure
  redemption and reconciliation for all who put
  their faith in him
• Believers are in Christ and thus participate in
  a relationship of solidarity with Christ in his
  death on the cross, his resurrection from the
  dead, his new life, and his fullness

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• Christ has defeated the powers of darkness on
  the cross, and Christians share in his power and
  authority over that realm Believers are called to
  grow in maturity in Christ by getting rid of
  sinful practices and cultivating Christian
  virtues

- ESV Study Bible, page 2290
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Christ has chosen to unite himself with his
followers so that we are in him and he is in us,
making us participants with him in his divine
nature.
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I am the true vine, and my Father is the
vinedresser.  Every branch in me that does not
bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that
does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more
fruit.  Already you are clean because of the word
that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in
you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself,
unless it abides in the vine, neither can you,
unless you
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abide in me.  I am the vine you are the
branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he
it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me
you can do nothing.  If anyone does not abide in
me he is thrown away like a branch and withers
and the branches are gathered, thrown into the
fire, and burned
- John 151 - 6
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I have been crucified with Christ. It is no
longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
And the life I now live in the flesh I live by
faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave
himself for me
- Galatians 220
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You, however, are not in the flesh but in the
Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in
you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of
Christ does not belong to him.  But if Christ is
in you, although the body is dead because of sin,
the Spirit is life because of righteousness
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If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the
dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus
from the dead will also give life to your mortal
bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you
- Romans 89 - 11
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Although often overlooked in favor of an
emphasis on justification by faith, Pauls
treatment of the spiritual life in Christ is
central to the apostles understanding of
religious experience. Communion with Christ is
presented as synonymous with salvation
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achieved by faith and consummated in love.
Christ for us must be kept together with Christ
in us. Union with Christ is organically related
to both justification and sanctification and as
such, life in Christ is the essence of Pauls
proclamation and experience
- R David Rightmire, Evangelical Dictionary of
Biblical Theology, page 789
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CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY
To them God chose to make known how great among
the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this
mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of
glory
- Colossians 127
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CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY
When Christ who is your life appears, then you
also will appear with him in glory
- Colossians 34
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WALK IN HIM
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the
Lord, so walk in him,  rooted and built up in him
and established in the faith, just as you were
taught, abounding in thanksgiving
- Colossians 26 - 7
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WALK IN HIM
walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully
pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work
and increasing in the knowledge of God
- Colossians 110
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WALK IN HIM
Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in
the same way in which he walked
- 1 John 26
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WALK IN HIM
As you have therefore received the Christ,
even Jesus the Lord, so walk regulate your
lives and conduct yourselves in union with him
and conformity to him
- 1 John 26
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WALK IN HIM
rooted and built up in him and established in
the faith as they have been taught
- 1 John 27
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WALK IN HIM
For this reason I bow my knees before the
Father,  from whom every family  in heaven and on
earth is named,  that according to the riches of
his glory he may grant you to be strengthened
with power through his Spirit in your inner
being,  so that Christ may dwell in your hearts
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WALK IN HIM
through faiththat you, being rooted and
grounded in love,  may have strength to
comprehend with all the saints what is the
breadth and length and height and depth,  and to
know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge,
that you may be filled with all the fullness of
God
- Ephesians 314 - 19
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For if we have been united with him in a death
like his, we shall certainly be united with him
in a resurrection like his.  We know that our old
self  was crucified with him in order that the
body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that
we would no longer be enslaved to sin.  For one
who has died has been set free  from sin.  Now if
we have died with Christ, we believe that we will
also live with him
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We know that Christ, being raised from the
dead, will never die again death no longer has
dominion over him.  For the death he died he died
to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he
lives to God.  So you also must consider
yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ
Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal
body, to make you obey its passions. Do not
present your
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members to sin as instruments for
unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as
those who have been brought from death to life,
and your members to God as instruments for
righteousness.  For sin will have no dominion
over you, since you are not under law but under
grace
- Romans 65 - 14