Courage in Christ comes from our unity with Christ

As a believer we need courage and need not be fearful and we should ensure that our courage rests upon which make us invincibly strong. Eph.6:10 “Be strong in the Lord” is one of the most important verses we will ever come to understand. It is very cornerstone to our knowing that we are invincible in spiritual warfare.

The phrase “In the Lord, In Christ appears 40 times in book of Ephesians. Every believer is inseparability united with Christ. We are placed by God into oneness with His person and work. 2 Corinth. 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

What does it mean to be in Christ and what is there that make is invincible strong. Let us see through the Bible 

1.To be “IN CHRIST” means we are in mighty victory of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. What a great source of power for victory His name represents in Phillipians 2:9-11 - “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father”.

His name is above every name and that speaks of a place of security and invincible strength. Every knee shall bow in submission to the power of that name satan and his Kingdome is also included. 

It is important daily to pray the security and strength of His name over personal life, family life and call on God upon your life. It is the name of Lord Jesus Christ that we are strong and invincible.

2. To be IN “CHRIST” means we are united in CHRIST in all of its victory that He achieved in His redemptive work. At salvation God puts us into all of His victory Christ achieved in His incarnation. On of the most astounding truth about the redemptive work of Christ is that in the person of Christ, God himself became a human being, which is one of the great Mistry of the eternity. As per Hebrew 2:14-15 in His reincarnate form, as one of us that Lord Jesus Christ achieved our redemption and totally defeated the Kingdome of darkness.

1 John 4:2-3 says every spirit that acknowledge that Chrost has come in flesh is from God and that does not acknowledge is not from God and is antichrist which is coming and already there in the world. 

The truth that God’s entering the world in person of Christ, the truth God was in Christ, that God himself became a human being, is a devastating threat to satan Kingdome. John tells this truth is so devastating and threatening to the Kingdome of darkness that fallen angels will not freely admit that Jesus Christ has come in human flesh. 

And victory over satan belongs to us through our union with Christ in His incarnation. It is experienced by those who appropriate and use this mighty truth against the enemy. Just use and see how defeating it is to your adversary if you focus the truth of your union with Christ in His incarnation against satan and his kingdom. 

He lives as a human being without sin and that was worthy of God’s best blessings. Tempted in every way and was without sin. He was always in fellowship with the heavenly father, always utterly holy and worthy of God’s best. As we walk in the world His worthy human life belon to us. It is ours and God sees us in Him. We do not expect those manifold blessing day by day because of how good and successful we are in living a prefect life. No, we expect His blessing because of our incarnate savior lived a perfectly worthy life and we are in Christ.

3.To be “IN CHRIST” means we are in the work and victory won by Hos death.  The suffering and death of our Lord Jesus Christ are equally vital to our invincible position in warfare praying. “Since the Children are flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by His death he might destroy him who holds the power of death – that is the devil – and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. 

In redemption’s plan God puts believers into the death of Christ with all of its victory over our enemies. We must aggressively lay hold of our union with Christ in His death and apply it as a part of our responsibility in invincible warfare. It is conveyed to us in Romans 6:11-12 “In the same way count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus”. Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

The fact that we commanded not to let sin reign in our body is evidence that believers can have this problem. And if the believer’s do not appropriate and apply their union with Christ in His death, sin in various expression will rule. We are responsible to count to affirm as truth that we are dead to sin’s rule. We ae united with Christ in His death because of that truth we are dead to the rule of sin /satan but alive to God’s reign. 

The cross and blood of our savior are great threat to Satan’s kingdom because in the cross, Jesus Christ brought satans Kingdome to nothing. As a believer we must apply the death of Christ, claiming all of the benefits to our person lives, to our families and to our ministry for the Lord so that we too become invincible with Christ in His death. And having disarmed the powers and authorities he made s public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the Cross (Col.2:15).

4. To be “IN CHRIST” suggests further victory in His resurrection also. The same mighty power that raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the grave belong to us and is ours. Even after becoming believers/ Apostle in Christ, while writing to Philippians say “I want o know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like His in His death and so somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead’ (Phillip. 3:10-11). Being in the Lord means that mighty power of resurrection is ours to be known and use to make us invincible in our warfare.

5.To be “IN CHRIST” has further application to our being seated with Christ in the heavenlies. “And God raise us up with Christ and seated is with Him in heavenly realms in Christ Jesus” (Ephs.2:6). After His resurrection the Lord Jesus was: -

“Which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come”.  And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all” (Eph.1-20-23). 

The ascension of Christ into glory was the sealing moments of His finished triumph and portrayal of His supreme Victory “for above all rule and authority” Being seated with Christ there, our “IN CHRIST” position is a truth demonstrating our “IN THE LORD” authority to resist the devil and to defeat him.  We are united with Christ in all His ascended authority and power.

Finally, to be strong in the Lord means we know and apply the truth of the word of God in our life and walk in Victory every day. There is much more in the little phrases in the Lord , In Christ  which help us to understand our unity with Christ and that make us invincible storing and satan roaring never need to frighten us if we are in Christ