How Did God Redeem Mankind and What Is My Identity?

God Chose You; you are not an accidental creature.

Adopted by God Through Christ

Many people think Christians are insane when they claim to speak to a God they cannot literally see. Surprisingly, I heard a random girl on social media telling a street pastor that speaking to God is a mental illness. Disgusting but forgivable.

Hosea 4.6a: My people perish for lack of Knowledge.

Sadly, many people are going astray and misleading others on baseless notions. Many pseudo-Christian churches have come up with falsified doctrines to create chaos and disperse the flock of God.

Well, I really cherish the Word of God because it foretold the coming of such men - who will attempt to deviate from the true doctrine of Christ and tweak the Gospel.

1 Tim. 6.3-5: false teachings are here and we must refute them. Utter keenness is required to point out deception.

Such false teachers are either driven by self-righteousness or the devil. Most of them are after riches and glory - just like satan. Flee from such people ASAP.

In a nutshell, true doctrines must encapsulate the following key fragments:

• Recognize Christ as the Son of God.

• Accept that Jesus Christ is the Word of God made flesh.

• Accept that Jesus is God - the deity of Christ must is not up for debate.

• Rely fully on the Bible - not supplementary books devised and curated by men to create rifts among the Children of God.

• Teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ - the great Commisioning...walking in the footsteps of Jesus Christ...the perfect man.

I will cover more interestingly specialized topics to help you figure out the true and canonical doctrine, identify false rabbis or teachers, and refute wrong dogmas.

But today, let us cover these crucial elements:

• How you identify in Jesus Christ

• How you belong in Christ

• How Jesus completed the transaction of purchasing or ransoming us back from captivity

• And how we become co-heirs with Christ Jesus.

In other words, we are solving our identity crisis.

God Chose You

Your Position In Christ

We are not accidental creatures; God has chosen us for a purpose. We access our spiritual blessings by understanding our position in Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

2 Peter 3.9: God predestined us to adoption as sons…ahead of time.

The scripture debunks that God is patient and doesn't want any to perish but all to come to repentance. If you are not in Christ you have perished, hence, being with Christ is passing from death to life. So literally, you cannot cross over to life outside of Christ.

Accepting Jesus Christ is imperative; our lives depend on Him.

John 3.16: declares the essence of salvation, with Christ at the center.

Some people wonder why God is not coming back - the parousia of Christ. Frankly, I was asking myself the same question, until I discovered that:

• God is not a man

• His plans are not like ours

• His ways are His.

• He cannot fit in our schemes; he is beyond us - way beyond.

All we can do is stick with His plan, read His Word, pray, and wait.

Perhaps God is delaying Doomsday, he wants to maximize the harvest of souls.

Jesus' sacrifice and God's grace alone have made us acceptable to God.

God Redeemed Us

Let's define some terms that show how God redeemed us:

Apolytrosis: Apolytrosis (Greek word for redemption): to pay the full ransom, to liberate & make free never to be sold into slavery again!

Currency of Our Purchase: Ephesians 1:7: the currency for our purchase was Jesus' blood (blood that forgives and offers grace!). So, we have a blank-check access to His grace…blood of Jesus.

God Has Revealed A Mystery To Us - Eph 3

God is divinely uncovering a hidden spiritual truth - to unite all things in Christ (a plan for the fullness of time; on earth and in heaven, Eph 1.19.

Defining these words will help you understand better:

Dispensation, Fullness of Time, and Mystery

Dispensation: Dispensation: to delegate stewardship of something.

The fullness of Time: Not linear time but fragments of times & ages

Mystery: Mystery is where all fragments of times in history have been dispensed and delegated. God will gather them all up together in Christ who's the fulfillment of them all. The whole human history is in the revelation of God's plan for mankind: Jesus Christ.

God Has Inheritance For Us

Finally, we see that God has an inheritance for us as promised in His Word. All these are made possible by Christ.

Inheritance is in Chris. That is because, through His sacrifice, we have been adopted as sons together with Jesus Christ our Lord.

Christ being the son of God, we are therefore co-heirs with him. We have an inheritance!

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@novaspagina