Waiting upon God, through Christ alone, by faith-dependence alone, by pure grace alone

When we don’t know or haven’t been taught certain truths from God’s Holy Word, we can get sidetracked by erroneous doctrines, but God can use them as they can become inlets to clearer truth.

Dying to sin, and rising with Christ is experiential, but we enter on this ground by absolute faith dependence, or it is a vain human effort to get at it.

In Col. 3:3 God says those in Christ are dead, to the world, and to the old self-life (see Gal. 6:14). In Rom. 6:1-14, faith holds and declares we are dead; and then in 1 Cor. 4:10, it is worked out experientially.

Ephesians is the sovereign work of God setting us, positioning us, placing us in Christ, our true and only image and identity. For all this, we must enter, and we will, into Rom. 7:1-25, on our, continually into Rom. 8:1-39 until we see Him face to face in 1 Cor. 13:12.

In all of this truth, God is working out in us what He, through Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, has already finished and worked out about us and for us (Phil. 2:12-13).

We are growing in the only thing we could grow in—the pure, unmixed grace of God and then that knowledge, that experiential knowledge of an intimate relationship with God through Christ alone, by grace alone, through faith alone (2 Pet. 3:18).

All the glory belongs to God alone, and we reap all the blessings and benefits. Ps. 68:19 “Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.”—pause, meditate on, and calmly think of this.