Bro Emmanuel & Sis Bukola
Every product has a manual produced by the manufacturer to guide users and to maximise the use of that product. A manufacturer’s manual is a document that contains written guidelines informing how to use the product. Neglecting to read and follow the manufacturer’s instruction for products can lead to grievous consequences ranging from lost time, damage to equipment or people, loss of warranty/compensations and at worst fatality.
As humans, we are designed and created by God. This means God is our Manufacturer, and we as humans are the product. However, just as every product has a manual, the Bible is the manual that describes who we are, our function, how we are to live and all essential instructions we are to follow. As with all products, ignoring the manufacturer’s manual also carries consequences, hence it is important to understand the content of the manual (The Bible). This A – Z reminder outlines some of God’s intent about us as His creature/product.
A: Adopted by God, made alive and able. Ephesians 2 vs 4 – 5; Philippians 4 vs13
So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” Rom 8:15 NLT.
B: Beloved of the father and a branch of the true Vine Col 3:12; John 15:5
As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,” Rom 9:25 BSB.
C: Complete, chosen children of God 1 Peter 2:9; I John 3:1
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power Colossians 2 vs 10 KJV.
D: Died with Christ and made a royal diadem Isaiah 62 vs 3
For you died [to this world], and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God Colossians 3 vs 3 AMP.
E: Elected by God and empowered through Christ
knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God. 1 Thessalonians 1 vs 4 NKJV
F: Forgiven, set free and made friends with Christ Ephesians 1 vs 7; Galatians 5 vs 1
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. John 15 vs 15 KJV.
G: Glorified by the Father
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Romans 8:30 KJV
H: Heir and handiwork of God Rom 8:17
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 NIV.
I: Image of God
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1 vs 27 KJV.
J: Justified through faith
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, Romans 5 vs 1 NIV.
K: Known by the Father and made kings unto God Psalms 139 vs 1
And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Revelation 1 vs 6 KJV.
L: Liberated to be a light to the world Matthew 5 vs 14
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. Galatians 5 vs 13 KJV.
M: You have the mind of Christ
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. I Corinthians 2 vs 16 KJV.
N: New creature with all your needs fully supplied Philippians 4 vs 19
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 2 Corinthians 5 vs 17 NLT.
O: Overcomers
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 1 John 4 vs 4 KJV.
P: Purchased by Christ and made a peculiar and precious person 1 Peter 2 vs 19; Isaiah 43 vs 4
For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 6:20 NAB.
Q: Quickened with Christ
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Colossians 2:13 KJV.
R: Rescued, redeemed and made the righteousness of God 2 Corinthians 5 vs 21
He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1 vs 13-14 BSB.
S: Salt and Saints, seated with Christ in the heavenly Ephesians 2vs 6
Ye are the salt of the earth… Matthew 5 vs 13
T: The temple of God, and HIS treasured possession Deuteronomy 7 vs 6
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 1 Corinthians 3 vs16 NKJV.
U: United with Christ
But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ. Ephesians 2 vs 13 NLT.
V: Valuable and victorious through Christ
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15vs 57 KJV.
W: We are His Witness and workmanship, and wonderfully made Ephesians 2 vs 10; Psalms 139 vs 14
“You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me. Isaiah 43 vs 10 NIV.
X: Xenoglossically empowered by the Spirit.
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts1 vs 8 KJV.
Y: Yokefellow and fellow labourers with Christ
And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.
Z- Placed at the Zenith with Christ so we can be zealous of good works Titus 2:1
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: Ephesians 2 vs 6 KJV.
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