OUR UNION WITH CHRIST

“At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you”. John 14:20

The believer is in vital union with Christ, he has been brought into an inseparable relationship with Christ by believing the gospel. When one believes that Jesus was raised from the dead, he’s brought into an eternal union with the Father. Paul the Apostle in his letter to the brethren at Rome said

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Romans 10:9).

To be saved here is to be brought into union with God. When the Lord Jesus said “at that day”,

He meant the day we’re living in now which started from the day of his resurrection. He said “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you” (John 14:20).

The son is in the Father, we are in the son and the son is in us.

In Paul’s letter to the Colossians, he said “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3).

What Paul said here is in perfect consonance with the words of our Lord Jesus Christ in John 14:20 quoted above.

The believer is dead to sin, his life is hidden with Christ in God. The believer is in Christ in God.

In 2 Corinthians 5:17, Paul said “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new”

The believer’s relationship with Christ is such that the believer is not a separate entity from Christ.

He’s organically joined together with Christ. Paul the Apostle expressed this thought by saying

“Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular” (1Corinthians 12:27).

Also, in his epistle to the Ephesians, he said “For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones” (Ephesians 5:30).

The church (the redeemed) is the body of Christ while Jesus Christ is the head: “And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence” (Colossians 1:18).

For example, your head cannot have seperate identity from your hand. In the same vein, Christ and His body are one.

So, the believer has same identity with Christ by virtue of this inseparable union.

John said “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world” (1 John 4:17). We’re same with Him! Glory to God!
Prayer:
I have been brought into an inseparable union with Christ. I’m identified in Christ.