The Ephesians Story (Part 5)

Okay, that’s Kevin. Marvelous brother. Kind of homely looking, but a marvelous brother. Thank you. Now, let’s do this again. You were in Christ until the day you were saved, and before you were saved, there’s no record of your existence. The only possible evidence you ever, ever had of your existence was a tombstone that was planted before creation. That you were dead, until the moment He put His life in you. Then you became one with Him and became the first fruits of a new creation, the first evidence of a new creation. That, I said, all of that is why you praise the glory of His grace, and that goes back to the sentence, “Grace got here before sin got here.”

If you’ll look at this again, dear child of God, how big is grace? Grace is so big that from the time you were born to the time you were saved, all sin is reckoned as dead that you ever committed. Praise the Lord. And what about all the sin, Gene, that I have committed since then, and I’m going to commit since then? What about that sin? It’s also dead; it has already been crucified, and you can even look at that from time, turn around and look at the cross and know that He took it all into the tomb with Him, and it didn’t come out. And that wasn’t some of your sin, or that wasn’t for all the people who lived then and the people who lived previously; that was all sin. And grace got here before sin did.

Now, let me make a point: you were in Christ before the foundation of the world, in both space and time, because He was slain before the foundation of the world. He took all things to the cross, to His death, to the Lamb’s wounded side, and brought all these things about to be created into Him before they were created, and He brought them to death. Therefore, on that hour when you were saved, you who were in Christ before the foundation of the world continued in Christ, beginning at the moment of your salvation. It’s not like you were in Christ, and then you were born, and then you die, and then you’re going to be in Christ. And it’s not like you were in Christ, and then you were born, and then you were in Christ, and then you died, and then you’d be in Christ again. It’s: you were in Christ the day you got saved, and you remained in Christ, and you died, and you went forward, and you were still in Christ.

Now I’m going to do it one more time. Now watch my hand. You were in Christ. You were in Christ. You are in Christ. You are in Christ. You shall be in Christ. You shall be in Christ. You are in Christ. You are in Christ. You are in Christ. You are in Christ. You are in Christ, and that goes on forever and ever. There was never a pause. Space and time don’t get reckoned as to when you were in Christ. Creation of a physical realm does not affect where you are. You are, in the eyes of God, still down there somewhere, lost in the inner being of His eternal Son. He is both divisible and indivisible. He can both be in you, yet He is one, and that part of you that’s really you is still in Him. Still buried back there somewhere in God, and yet uniquely here on this earth. And that’s kind of about that door, you know? Your spirit may be here in space and time, but your spirit and His spirit, one with your spirit, are also there in the other realm in Him.

Now that was all clear, wasn’t it? Isn’t that simple to understand? Did you know I told the people in Albania this? And they understood it perfectly. Four weeks before, they had hardly ever heard the name God; never seen a scripture. Isn’t that incredible? How would he call them ahead if we didn’t do a bad task and start reading this and do it here? And they just accepted that. You know why they accepted it? You know why they believed me, sitting there on that porch in Albania? Because they’re believers. Their spirit always knew this. That’s right, because they’re in Him, their spirit witnesses to Him.

Now, where are you? You’re in Christ. Who are you? You’re part of a new creation. Was that the molecular structure of the new creation? The Lord. Where were you before the foundation of the world? “I didn’t exist.” Yes, you did. You existed in Christ. The mainest part of you, the real mainest part of you, the most vital, real part of you was in Him. And I pose this question again: when Heaven and Earth pass away, and when all physical things are gone, what are you going to put your feet on? If it’s all gone, where are you going to stand? Where are you going to be? How are you going to get your footing in a situation like that? Where will you be when Heaven and Earth and all creation pass away? You’ll be in Christ. Well, say Praise the Lord.

Is there something more you would like for me to tell you? Is that not enough? Is there more to be said? Can we possibly say any more than this? I don’t think so, brothers and sisters. So, let us praise the glory of His grace. Say hallelujah, brother, I didn’t see you. Alright. Well, if we cannot praise Him for this, we need to go see a psychiatrist. We need help. And this is His grace. His grace does not begin in our sin; His grace began before salvation and encompasses all things. (continued in Part 6)