What Happened When You Received Christ?

You Entered A New Kingdom

COLOSSIANS 1:13 NKJ
13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

EPHESIANS 2:19 NKJ
19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

You Have A New Lord

ROMANS 14:9 NKJ
9 For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

ROMANS 10:9 NKJ
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

You Gained Access To God

EPHESIANS 2:18 NKJ
18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

EPHESIANS 3:12 NKJ
12 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him.

HEBREWS 10:19 NKJ
19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

You Entered Into Covenant With God

MATTHEW 26:28 NKJ
28 "For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

HEBREWS 7:22 NKJ
22 . . . Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.

HEBREWS 10:16 NKJ
16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"

You Became Identified With Christ

EPHESIANS 2:10 NKJ
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works . . . .

1 JOHN 5:20 NKJ
20 . . . we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. . . .

EPHESIANS 1:6 NKJ
6 . . . He has made us accepted in the Beloved.

ROMANS 7:4 NKJ
7 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

You Became Part Of The Church

ACTS 2:47 NKJ
47 . . . And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

EPHESIANS 1:22-23 NKJ
22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,
23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

EPHESIANS 5:30 NKJ
30 For we are members of His body . . . .

You Became A Child Of God

JOHN 1:12 NKJ
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name:

2 CORINTHIANS 6:18 NKJ
18 "I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."

1 JOHN 3:2 NKJ
2 Beloved, now we are children of God . . . .

ROMANS 8:16 NKJ
16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

1 JOHN 3:10 NKJ
10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

Spirit Of Christ Came In You

COLOSSIANS 1:27 NKJ
27 . . . Christ in you, the hope of glory.

GALATIANS 2:20 NKJ
20 "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

1 CORINTHIANS 6:17,19 NKJ
17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

2 CORINTHIANS 6:16 NKJ
16 . . . For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

The Old You Died

ROMANS 6:6,8 NKJ
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

COLOSSIANS 3:3 NKJ
3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

You Became A New Person

2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 NKJ
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

JOHN 3:6-7 NKJ
6 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 "Do not marvel that I said to you, `You must be born again.'

1 PETER 1:23 NKJ
23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,

1 JOHN 5:1 NKJ
1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God . . . .

You Received Eternal Life

ROMANS 6:23 NKJ
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

EPHESIANS 2:1 NKJ
1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

JOHN 5:24 NKJ
24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

1 JOHN 3:14-15 NKJ
14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.
15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

1 JOHN 5:11-12 NKJ
11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

You Were Given A New Heart

EZEKIEL 36:26-27 NKJ
26 "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
27 "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.

HEBREWS 8:10 NKJ
10 . . . "I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God . . . .

You Were Set Free From Sin's Power

ROMANS 8:2 NKJ
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

ROMANS 6:11,12,14,17,18 NKJ
11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you . . . .
17 . . . you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that . . . doctrine . . . you were delivered.
18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

1 PETER 2:24 NKJ
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness -- by whose stripes you were healed.

Your Sins Were Forgiven And Blotted Out

HEBREWS 9:26 NKJ
26 . . . He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

COLOSSIANS 1:14 NKJ
14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

ACTS 10:43 NKJ
43 ". . . whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins."

ACTS 13:38-39 NKJ
38 ". . . through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins;
39 "and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

HEBREWS 8:12 NKJ
12 "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

PSALM 103:12 NKJ
12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

MICAH 7:19 NKJ
19 . . . You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

You Received Gift Of Righteousness

1 CORINTHIANS 1:30 NKJ
30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God -- and righteousness and sanctification and redemption --

2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 NKJ
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

ROMANS 3:21-22 NKJ
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed . . .
22 even the righteousness of God which is through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all who believe. . .

ROMANS 5:17,19 NKJ
17 . . . those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.

ROMANS 10:10 NKJ
10 For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.

You Have A Right To Use Jesus' Name

PHILIPPIANS 2:10 NKJ
10 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,

JOHN 14:12-14 NKJ
12 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
13 "And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 "If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.

JOHN 16:23-24 NKJ
23 "And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.
24 "Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

You Have Authority Over The Devil

MATTHEW 28:18-19 NKJ
18 . . ."All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all . . . .

LUKE 10:19 NKJ
19 . . . I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

EPHESIANS 1:22-23 NKJ
22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,
23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

MARK 16:17-18 NKJ
17 "And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;
18 "they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

JAMES 4:7 NKJ
7 . . . Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

EPHESIANS 4:27 NKJ
27 nor give place to the devil.

1 PETER 5:8-9 NKJ
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith . . . .

EPHESIANS 6:11-13 NKJ
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

You Received An Inheritance

GALATIANS 3:29 NKJ
29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

ROMANS 4:13 NKJ
13 For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

EPHESIANS 1:3,11 NKJ
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
11 in whom also we have obtained an inheritance. . .

COLOSSIANS 1:12 NKJ
12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

ROMANS 8:17 NKJ
17 and if children, then heirs -- heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ . . . .

ACTS 26:18 NKJ
18 `to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

REVELATION 21:7 NKJ
7 "He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.

You Became An Overcomer

1 JOHN 5:4-5 NKJ
4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world -- our faith.
5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 JOHN 4:4 NKJ
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

ROMANS 8:37 NKJ
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

MARK 9:23 NKJ
23 Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."


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