What does it mean to “put on Christ”; that is what we want to think about this evening. In verse 26 Paul has said, “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.” When he says, “you are all sons”, he is not addressing all men; he is particularly addressing believers. A believer is one who has become a son of God through faith in Jesus Christ. But this in its origination was all a matter of God's mercy in His bringing them to Himself and adopting them into His family. We are not God's spiritual children by nature, we cannot become His sons and daughters, except by faith in Jesus Christ. It is only by faith then, and not by the works of the law, that a person is justified. This is what we have been seeing in our study of this book thus far. Real changes have taken place in the believer's life both before and after they first believed. We will think about both here tonight. Concerning our text, there are 3 ways in which the believer should respond to the grace of Christ which has been given to them, as they consider that they have spiritually been baptized into Christ. 1st – A new believer consciously “puts on” Jesus Christ in their thoughts and by being willing to publicly profess Christ. 2nd – A new believer consciously embraces the unity of the body of Christ. And 3rd – A new believer consciously sees themselves as an heir according to promise.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...