You can understand the good things you have in Christ and put them into action!

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“And I am praying that you will put into action the generosity that comes from your faith as you understand and experience all the good things we have in Christ.” (Philemon 1:6 NLT)

If you have put your trust in Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, you have received many good things as a result. Here are some of them.

You are a new creation!

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (2 Cor. 5:17 ESV)

You are A child of God!

“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.” (John 1:12 ESV)

You are His workmanship!

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (Eph. 3:10 ESV)

You are in Christ and without condemnation!

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” (Rom. 8:1 ESV)

You have become the righteousness of God!

“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Cor. 5:21 ESV)

Your body is the Holy Spirit’s temple!

“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own.” (2 Cor. 6:19 ESV)

You are God’s friend!

“No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.” (John 15:15 ESV)

Therefore, proclaim His excellencies!

“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” (1 Peter 2:9 ESV)