The claim or the idea of being "In Christ" means no more or less than when someone tells their significant other that they are in love with them, and yet it actually does have far more deeply religious meanings than just being "in love" with someone. Jesus was and is the Son of God, His earthly father who helped teach and raise Him as a carpenter on Earth was Joseph, a descendant of David who was an earlier King of Israel. Jesus' mother Mary was also a descendant of David, so he was also considered a Son of David by lineage.
The label of Christ which means Messiah was not part of Jesus' name, but was given to Him in the writings of the New Testament and by His followers who believed that He was the Son of God and therefore the Messiah that they were expecting according to prophecy. Some writers today claim that He didn't exist because historians of the period didn't mention Him, which is absurd because they didn't mention many people who lived in the period and yet we have skeletal proof that they existed, famous or not.
There won't be any mention of me in the history books of the future, but I am writing this piece and unless all of my writings are purged at some future time, I did exist long enough to write something. The Christ or Messiah was prophesied to come from the time of Adam and Eve when God said that the "seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent". Since God is Jesus' Father, He is the seed of the woman because God used the egg from Mary and created Jesus with His humanity, but not the nature of a human father.
Your life and mine have a purpose to fulfill. Mine is to be a pastor and a type of missionary for Christ to the best of my ability. Since I cannot travel the world, I have to keep these blogs of mine going. I apologize for not getting to this one more often, even though it was the first that I started. I have four other blogs over at Wordpress.com that I write for and all of them, to some extent, are blogs about world happenings and their place in prophecy and of course they point to Jesus as our Savior and Lord.
Getting back to being in Christ, we are as Christians in Christ and He lives in us through the Holy Spirit giving us hope and strength and the words to say when needed in defense of our beliefs. He is living in all of those who have given their lives to Him, but He doesn't force His life on you or in you. Many of you know that being forced to do something, especially belief or love is really impossible, you can't be forced to "love" someone or be forced to believe in something that you don't truly believe!
That would be like forcing a square peg into a round hole, if you pound upon it long enough it might go in but you will likely break the board or the peg before that happens. Which is what is happening in the Middle East right now. Isis is trying to force people to bow or believe in Islam and if they don't they kill them. Belief cannot be forced, no matter how much you threaten or point a gun or knife or sword at me, I will not give up or deny my Savior! I would rather die, because by doing so I will be standing in His Presence in Heaven and no longer bound by disease and disability as I am now! So, in truth, if you kill me you are doing me a favor and if it is God's will that I die this way, then I will gladly give my life for Jesus and for my belief in Him! After all, He died so that we might have life eternal and I give my life to Him every morning when I get up to do His work while I am able.
In Christ is what we are as Christians and it is not something which many people can understand unless they are a Christian. You come to a saving knowledge of Him through faith, it is not forced into you nor can it be taken from you, although I gladly give it away through my preaching at my church and through these blogs. Consider Christ Jesus as your Messiah, seek Him through the reading of God's Word and pray for understanding so that you will be counted among those who will stand with Him on that day when all will bow to Him.
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