In I Corinthians 15:22 we read, "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."
Did you notice the two addresses spiritually? Everybody is located in Adam by means of their physical birth. You become located spiritually in Christ by means of your spiritual birth. You are in Adam. That means you are born into the human family. But the Bible says it is also possible to be located "in Christ." When you come to Jesus, you get a brand-new spiritual location. You are now located in Christ Jesus. You are in the atmosphere of Jesus Christ.
Saved people now live in the atmosphere of Jesus Christ!
Notice this little phrase "in Christ" is one of the favorite phrases in the Bible. You will read it over and over again in the New Testament. Of course, location determines destination. "In Adam, all die." That simply means that by means of our physical birth, we are born into this world as sinners. You are a sinner because you choose to sin. You choose to sin because you have a sinful nature. When God created Adam and Eve, He put them in the Garden of Eden. God told them they could eat of all of the trees of the garden except one and in the day, you eat thereof you will surely die.
Adam disobeyed God and when he did, the Bible teaches that Adam fell. When Adam fell, the whole human race fell. That's why when you and I are born, we are born with a sinful nature, knowing how to sin. Nobody has to teach you how to sin. You come into the world with all the equipment necessary to sin.
Location determines destination. We are in Adam. We are born as sinners and that means that if we die in our physical conditions and in our spiritual condition as sinners, the Bible says the "wages of sin is death." When you come to Jesus, you are now located in Christ. "In Christ all shall be made alive." When you come to Jesus, who is the life, the Bible says that in Jesus Christ you now have life. Life now, life in the future. We have a new location.
Not only does location determine destination, but it also determines your daily behavior. It has much to do with how you live daily. We are living in a sinful world. We are living in the atmosphere of a culture that is an ungodly culture. How, then is it possible for a Christian to live the way he or she ought to live in this kind of culture? We are IN Christ Jesus. We are in a new spiritual location. In Jesus, there is every bit of the power we need to live the way God wants us to live. There is all of the strength that is necessary for you to be what God wants you to be.
Hebrews 4 verse 12: "For the Word of God is living and effective and sharper than any two-edge sword."
Jesus connects us to life. We are saints, set apart to the Lord. We are in Jesus Christ. We have new potential, new opportunities. We are In Christ we have been made alive in our destinies in Him.
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