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You're A Saint: by Skip Heitzig - July 13, 2021
You're A Saint: by Skip Heitzig - July 13, 2021
But Paul the apostle wrote to saints in the books of Philippians, Romans,
Colossians, and 1 and 2 Corinthians—and he wasn't writing to dead
people. So what exactly is a saint? The opening verses of Philippians give
us four qualities to consider:
4. A saint benefits spiritually. "Grace to you and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ" (v. 2). Grace and peace are like the
Siamese twins of the New Testament, because you always find them
together, and the order is never reversed. That's because it's God's grace
that produces God's peace in the life of a saint. Grace is the fountain, and
peace is the stream that flows from it.
To sum it all up, if you're a believer in Jesus Christ—if you belong to Christ
—you are a saint. The word saint means holy. I want you to know that even
if you don't feel that way, God sees you that way, because you are in
Christ. God sees you as righteous because of what Jesus did for you on the
cross. And now the light of the gospel shines through you. Imperfectly,
certainly, but it still shines through—so let it shine.