Who You Are Since You Are ‘In Christ’
The moment one first believes that Christ is the risen Savior of their soul they enjoy all “Spiritual blessings" flowing from the heavenly places “in Christ Jesus.”
The moment one first believes that Christ is the risen Savior of their soul they enjoy all “Spiritual blessings" flowing from the heavenly places “in Christ Jesus.”
Jesus of Nazareth brought a foretaste of the blessings of the New Covenant to "the circumcision (Israel)" (Rom 15:8) during His earthly ministry. To explain this we should first note that there must of necessity be the contrast between Israel's "Old" and "New" Covenants.
It is "Paul, The Apostle to the Gentiles" (Rom 11:13) who plainly tells us that we who are of the Gentile "body of Christ" are NOT God's covenant people at all. Here below you see that the Gentiles were without any "covenant of promise."
Now we should note the contrast between Israel's "Old Covenant" and Jesus' promise of a "New Covenant." The words of Jesus were:
"This cup is the New Covenant In My Blood, which is shed for you"; "drink ye all of it"; "this do ye...in remembrance of me"; "and they all drank of it" (Luke 22:20, Matt. 26:27, 1 Cor. 11:26, Mark 14:23).