When our favourite sports team wins, we say, \u2018We won!\u2019 What do you mean \u2018we\u2019<\/i>? You weren\u2019t on the field. You didn\u2019t get tackled. You didn\u2019t throw or kick the ball. You didn\u2019t even score a single goal. What do you mean \u2018we\u2019<\/i>won? You mean that, because the team you support and identify with won, you won too. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s an important spiritual truth here for you as the redeemed child of God. When Jesus died, you died with Him. When Jesus arose, you arose with Him to \u2018walk in newness of life.\u2019<\/i> (Romans\u00a06:4\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>) The difference between you and the team that won is that you will never actually be an active part of it. But when Jesus won at the cross and you accepted Him as your Saviour, God positioned you \u2018in Christ\u2019.<\/i> Today He sees you clothed in the righteousness of Christ (see 2\u00a0Corinthians\u00a05:21). <\/p>\n Paul explains it this way: \u2018The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs\u2014heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.\u2019<\/i> Did you get that? As a redeemed child of God, you are an \u2018heir\u2019<\/i> of everything your heavenly Father owns. <\/p>\n And it gets better; we\u2019re also \u2018joint heirs with Christ\u2019<\/i>, meaning that whatever Jesus is entitled to, we are also entitled to. <\/p>\n When you understand this truth and begin to walk according to it, you start to identify and claim the blessings God has promised you in His Word. These blessings include such things as grace, forgiveness, healing, provision, guidance, strength, etc. Your identity in Christ entitles you to all these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When our favourite sports team wins, we say, \u2018We won!\u2019 What do you mean \u2018we\u2019? You weren\u2019t on the field. You didn\u2019t get tackled. You didn\u2019t throw or kick the ball. You didn\u2019t even score a single goal. What do you mean \u2018we\u2019won? You mean that, because the team you support and identify with won, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}