Growing in Grace 8 - A Covenant of Relationship

A Relationship Covenant Relationship - In Christ - Christ in Us - Through Christ - Knowing God - Conclusion Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; In Christ 1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. Ephesians 1:3, 18 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 1:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, Jeremiah 33:3; Psalm 119:18 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’ Jer 33:3 Psa 119:18 Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law. Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Colossians 1:28 Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. Christ In Us John 6:56 “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. John 6:35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. John 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. John 15:4-5 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 4 Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 4:19 My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you, Through Christ Romans 5:17, 21 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.) 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 17 1 Corinthians 1:4-5 4 I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, 5 that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, Philippians 1:11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Knowing God John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. Philippians 3:8,10,13 8Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 10that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 13Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, Ephesians 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 2 Peter 3:18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen. Conclusion John 14:10 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. John 6:57 “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 2 Peter 1:2-3 2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, Psalm 34:8 Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!