Learn Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began.” (Romans 16:25)

This week, Warren Litzman further explains the Apostle Paul’s message to believers in Romans 16:25.

Paul uses the word “according” in Romans 16:25 to brings us back to the beginning, God’s original plan.

In Ephesians 1:4, Paul, once again, reveals God’s eternal plan to us when he uses the word “according”:

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.”

By Christ’s death and resurrection, God uprooted our sin-nature and planted the incorruptible seed of His Son within our spirits (chosen in Him). By this we are born again and made brand-new creations. This is God’s original plan, the mystery kept hidden since the world began yet revealed to Paul. Paul calls this “my gospel” because it was given only to him. Moreover, the seed of Christ now in him, and in each one of us, comes forth through him and us uniquely and according to our knowledge of Him.

By each of our unique circumstances and situations of life, and moreover through our sufferings, God is establishing us in Christ, pushing us to Him, prompting our love affair with Him and preparing us, as His children, to live in His house. Now that we are established in Christ by His seed, God’s eternal plan, His plan from the beginning, can now be fulfilled. The circumstances and situations of our lives help us break the hull of Christ’s seed in us so that we no longer live by our old natures but allow Christ’s nature to come forth. By the help of the Holy Spirit, we can now learn of Christ and our new life in Him.

As we learn Christ as our new life, our old mindsets break down and our renewed minds now become subject to Him. Thus it is in our souls (where our minds reside) where our love affair with Him can begin. And this is God’s eternal plan for us: to be established in Christ, to know Him, and to fall in love with Him more and more every day.