When we believe in Jesus Christ for salvation, these are the things that happen:

Colossians 1   ^“12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, ¹³ who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love, ¹⁴ in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.”

• God became our Father
• He made us partakers of His inheritance (eternal life)
• God declared us as saints – it is finished.
• God put us in the Light – it is finished.
• We are no longer in darkness – it is finished.
• We are in the Kingdom of Christ, the Son of God – it is finished.
  • We don’t need to seek the kingdom anymore because we already have it in Christ.
• God gave us the redemption from the curse – it is finished.
• God gave us the forgiveness of sins in Christ – it is finished.

Colossians 1 “²¹ You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds, ²² yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,”

• We are no longer enemies of God
• We are reconciled by the death of Christ – it is finished.
• God made us holy – it is finished.
• God made us without defect – it is finished.
• God made us blameless – it is finished.

Colossians 1 “²⁶ the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints, ²⁷ to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.“

• We are no longer under the judgment of sin – it is finished
• We are in CHRIST – it is finished
• Christ lives in us.
• We have the hope of GLORY to live in forever in heaven with God because Christ lives in us and He lives forever!

Colossians 2 “⁹ For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily, ¹⁰ and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power. ¹¹ In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ, ¹² having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, ¹⁴ wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. “

• We are complete in Christ – it is finished.
• Just as God fully dwelt in Christ, in the same way we are now full because Christ is in us!
• We are in Christ, we are one with God the Father.
• We are FULL in Christ. We lack nothing spiritually – it is finished.
• We became COMPLETE in Christ the day we first believed in Christ. Amen! It is finished.
• Believers are righteous in Christ without works – therefore we cannot become more righteous because His righteousness has already been given to us!
• Our works cannot add to His righteousness. Our sins cannot subtract from His righteousness.
• We were dead in sin but now we are ALIVE in Christ – it is finished.
• We are not sinners but we are now forgiven ALL sin – it is finished.
• All the laws that stood against us have been nailed to the cross – it is finished
• We are not under law, but under GRACE – in Christ.
  • We are not under the 603 + 10 commandments of the law.
  • We are under GRACE – forgiven and righteous by faith in Christ alone, not works

So then, how do we live the Christian life?

Colossians 2 “⁶ As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, ⁷ rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.”

• How did we receive Christ?
  • By GRACE through faith in Christ and not by works.
• We live everyday exactly the same way
  • By GRACE through faith in Christ and not by works.
• Knowing that we are forgiven all sins, we are saints in the light, forgiven all sins, righteous by faith and not by works.
• Not by trying to do things to become more righteous but knowing that we are already COMPLETE in CHRIST.
• We walk from the position as God’s beloved children, having full assurance that we are forgiven and complete in Christ.
• We feed on CHRIST’s LOVE and then love one another in freedom without compulsion (Colossians 3:12-13)

IT IS FINISHED – the believer is complete in Christ.