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In this lesson, Paul is telling us that once we receive Christ Jesus as our Lord, we are apart of him. We begin to build up our faith because we begin to get rooted and grounded in Christ. It is through Christ that we build and develop stability in our christian lives and receive the spirtual nourishment necessary for continual growth and we need to grow and walk more like Christ. We should not allow anything in this world to take our eyes off our focus from our relationship with Christ. Everything we need can be found in Jesus, because he is the Head of all created beings. And because we are in Christ, we are also complete and in possession of His fullness and through his fullness we receive his grace.
When we are born again into the family of God, we become complete and made whole. We begin to grow from the inside out. We become dead to our old sinful nature way of life and become tranformed into a new creation through Christ. We are forgiven of our past sins and transgression, delivered, set apart, chosen and called out to be adopted into the sonship of Jesus Christ. We have a freedom of life, eternal life, peace, joy, hope and an abundance of prosperity.
Jesus gave his life, so that we can have life with the Father. When Christ went to the cross for us, we gained Victory over sin, death and satan. The resurrection was God's vindication of the Victory already won, a declaration of power that Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus death provided the way for us to become united and complete with our Abba Father.