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28th Jun 2021

2 Timothy 2-Part 2: Paul’s Gospel Is Christ In Us

Paul’s Gospel Is Christ In Us

By Tammy Lacock

“Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel.” (2 Timothy 2:8 KJV)

Warren emphasizes this verse from Paul to Timothy for several reasons. First, Paul wants us to remember that everything starts with Christ. He then reminds us that Jesus Christ came from the seed of David. Christ was a natural man who was born of Mary who, in turn, was a descendant from the line of King David. Christ was born into humanity. He felt pain just like anyone else. He felt every human emotion. However, He was different!

Paul then reminds us that, after His crucifixion and death on the cross, God raised Christ from the dead. Now we know Christ in Spirit. He is no longer in the flesh. By the revelation of Christ in Spirit, Paul tells us that we died, too. Our old lives of sin and death died with Christ, and we arose with Him into a new life in Him. As believers, Christ saved us from our old lives and brought us into our new life in Him, joined with Christ in one Spirit, making us now bona fide children of God!

This is the gospel that Paul states here in verse 8 when he says this is “my gospel.” He calls it his gospel because Christ gave it to him directly and it is personal to him. Throughout his epistles, Paul wants us to understand that we can only know and experience Christ living in us by having that revelation ourselves.

With the help of the Holy Spirit, we too can have this personal relationship with Christ who lives in us now. It is only by this personal relationship that we may call it our gospel, as Paul rightly called it his gospel.

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Loving the Christ-life!
Warren Litzman teaches life in Christ, the Christ-life, the gospel of grace taught by Apostle Paul..
Warren Litzman teaches the Christ-life, the liberating life available when the born-again believer realizes the Spirit of Christ living within is his/her only righteousness and only life. This gospel of grace taught by Paul frees us from sin and law, shifting our focus from self to Christ, relieving us from stressing over perfecting self by works and the guilt and condemnation that follows our inevitable failure at self-righteousness. It leads us into a much more personal, intimate relationship with our heavenly Father as born-again children of God, joint-heirs with Christ.

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Brad Wilson is an award-winning broadcaster and film producer who hosts the weekly “Loving the Christ-Life” podcast. In 1971, Brad met Warren Litzman and was introduced to the “in-Christ” message. He and Warren remained friends until Warren left this earth in 2019. The message, which Brad still studies, changed Brad’s life forever, just as it’s done and continues to do with countless other lives around the world. He’s honored to be hosting this very important podcast.