This travail began when he preached the gospel to them, helping them be born anew with the life of God by receiving the Lord Jesus as their Savior. Just as a woman travails, or labors, in childbirth to bring forth a child, Paul said he travailed in birth to bring forth the believers in Galatia as his spiritual children. “My children, with whom I travail again in birth until Christ is formed in you.”
Because He lives in us, the Christian life is not a matter of trying to behave like Christ, but of allowing Him to live in and through us. Here, Paul did not say, “I live in a Christ-like way,” or, “I glorify Christ through my behavior.” No, he said, “ Christ…lives in me,” clearly showing us that Christ lives in His believers. “I am crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.” Galatians 2:20-“It is Christ who lives in me”
From within us, God is pleased to reveal more of the wonderful Person of Christ. We might think this verse should read, “It pleased God…to reveal His Son to me.” But in Greek, the original language of the New Testament, the preposition is unmistakably in, so the verse reads “to reveal His Son in me.” God’s plan is to reveal His Son in us, from within, rather than to us, from without. “But when it pleased God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called by His grace, to reveal His Son in me.” Christ lives in us earthen vessels as a precious treasure, revealing the glory of God to us from within. What is this treasure? In verse 6 we see the treasure is Jesus Christ, in whose face we see the glory of God. In verse 7, the apostle Paul describes the believers as earthen vessels that contain this treasure. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not out of us.”
“Because the God who said, Out of darkness light shall shine, is the One who shined in our hearts to illuminate the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Second Corinthians 4:6-7-“This treasure in earthen vessels” Now He’s in us, so our “spirit is life.” 2. When we received Jesus as our Savior, He came into our spirit. Our human spirit is our deepest part, created with the ability to contact and receive the Spirit of God. We human beings were made by God with three distinct parts: body, soul, and spirit. “But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness.” In this post, we’ll highlight just eight of these wonderful portions from the Scriptures. Many verses in the Bible tell us unmistakably that Jesus Christ lives in His believers. Christ isn’t outside of us as some kind of Helper in our time of need He actually lives in us and is with us all the time. Just like the Corinthians, we believers today need to realize this fact about ourselves. He meant that Jesus Christ was literally dwelling within them.
In writing Jesus Christ is in you, Paul wasn’t speaking poetically or metaphorically. In 2 Corinthians 13:5, the apostle Paul asks the Corinthian believers a question: “Or do you not realize about yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you?”
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