Clothed with Christ

We are now clothed with Christ. God no longer sees you in His mind as one who is condemned in Adam. Now you have put on Christ as an outward garment. “For as many as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ as an outward garment” Galatians 3:27. All that Christ is, is now reckoned to you in God’s mind. One day, we will be completely like Christ, “Brethren, now we are the children of God and it has not yet appeared what we shall be. We intuitively know that when He appears we will be like Him, because we will see Him as He is,” 1 John 3:2. Our complete redemption is so absolute that God already counts us to have it. When God looks at you, He sees Christ and that is therefore how God thinks about you and in this frame of mine God relates to you. God’s opinion of you is equal to His opinion of Christ because you are in Christ. Now, we need to act in this way. “Be renewed by the Spirit in the workings of your mind, and put on the new man, the one created according to God in righteousness and holiness of the truth.” Ephesians 4:24. Act in accordance to who you really are.

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Definitions

The truth – seeing things are they really are.

Holy – separated or set apart.

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