’Seeing Christ in you’ by Owen Lynch - 4 December 2022
How and where can we encounter Christ? Owen Lynch looks at the story of Saul who had a famous roadside meeting with the risen Jesus but later wrote about how God revealed his son "in me". Taking on his new name, Paul asked others, "Do you not realise that Christ Jesus is in you?" Could the life, breath and word of God also be in you? How would it change our lives to believe that we are made in God's image and have never been separate from God?
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“So, all the people of Israel should know this truly: God has made Jesus—the man you nailed to the cross—both Lord and Christ.” (Acts 2:36)
“Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” ‘Who are you?’ Saul asked. ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ he replied. (Acts 9:4)
“But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being.” (Galatians 1:15-16)
“(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) (Romans 2:14-15)
“Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realise that Christ Jesus is in you?” (2 Corinthians 13:5-6)
“Here [in this new reality] there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.” (Colossians 3:11)
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made… The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” (John 1:1-3, 14)
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” (Galatians 5:22-23)