In Christ - prt 2

2Cor 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God IN HIM.

The blessing of the believer is RIGHTEOUSNESS.

We have always thought that the blessing of Abraham that is now ours in Christ Jesus is material or physical wealth. No it's not. We've always looked back at the abundance of the material wealth that Abraham possessed; the flocks of sheep, herds of cattle and camels and so forth, and reasoned that this must be what the blessing of Abraham is all about.

But, the blessing with which God had blessed Abraham because he believed was, RIGHTEOUSNESS. Galatians 3:13-14:

13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
14 That THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM MIGHT COME ON THE GENTILES THROUGH JESUS CHRIST; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

If material wealth is the blessing, then the wealthy man still in the world today does not need Christ!

"... that the blessing of Abraham might come on the gentiles[the nations outside Israel] through Jesus Christ". If the word "blessing" in this scripture means material wealth or riches, does it means that no gentile man or woman ever was rich in material things before the coming and death of Christ?

Does this mean that the unregenerate wealthy man in the world today have Christ, because it says, "...that the BLESSING of Abraham might come on the gentiles through Jesus Christ"?

It should become evident that this blessing is not material wealth. It is spiritual wealth. Ephesians 1:3;

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS in heavenly places in Christ"

By this, it becomes clear that the blessing of Abraham is spiritual blessing not material. Some example of spiritual blessing as seen from the bible are these, WISDOM, RIGHTEOUSNESS, SANCTIFICATION, REDEMPTION, and so forth; these are the blessings promised to the seed of Abraham that is now the Believer's in Christ(Gal 3:16).


So even Abraham did not enjoy the fullness of this blessing because he died before the promised seed, which is Jesus, did come on the seen. By this, the Believer is even more blessed than Abraham, because, the blessing pronounced on him was a promise which was to be fulfilled in his seed, which is CHRIST. And since we are in Christ, the fullness of this blessing belongs to us that are in Christ.

The fathers of old were dead to spiritual things and as such the blessing could only be revealed to them through material wealth. But for the believer in Christ today, it goes much further than that. The Believer in Christ now possesses the prime possession which is the Holy Ghost(Rom 8:23; Eph 1:13-14);He is the height of the blessing revealed today in the Believer.

Gal 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the PROMISES made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

It was a promise to Abraham, but thank God it is fulfilled in the Believer in Christ Jesus!

Hebrews 11:8-13:

8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
13 THESE ALL DIED IN FAITH, NOT HAVING RECEIVED THE PROMISES, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Praise be to the Father, we have received these promises in Christ Jesus by faith, that the elders of old only hoped for!

Were you blessed?

Confess this: The blessing promised to Abraham and to his seed are mine in Christ. I am God's Righteousness, I am His Wisdom, I am His Sanctified, I am His Redeemed!

Glory to God.