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“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:22).
As children of our father Adam, the first man, we are all sinners, and are all subject to death. God had warned Adam and Eve that if they disobeyed Him and ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would surely die, and this has definitely happened. But now something wonderful has happened. If we accept Christ as our Savior, our verse today says, “All [shall] be made alive.”
The key phrase in the verse is “in Christ.” In this time of God’s grace, every true believer is in Christ. This was a special revelation given directly to the Apostle Paul; it was not known before, and believers in the Old Testament did not have this assurance. If we are “in Christ,” then we are just as fit for heaven as He is. If He is risen from the dead, then we too will rise from the dead, if we die before He comes to take us home. We cannot have more security than this! We are united to Christ, and are seen before God as being “in Christ.” As such, we have everything that He has. Again, what a wonderful thing this is!
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