Mark Vestal Supporter Proud of nothing of myself. Freed by Christ who did it all!

This verse is regarding the spiritual blessings we have through faith in Christ (vs. 35-39 below). How do these blessings "work together for good to them that love God"? It is where the very hope and promise originates (Christ crucified for us) that believers now work from for the remainder of their carnal lives. Believers recognize the difference in their past carnal life without God (spiritually), and through growth in faith become more separated (less dependent) from this "present evil world" (Gal 1:4). This living hope that now manifests itself within the believer is what helps them become "content" over time with whatever state they find themselves, in this temporal life on earth. The believers focus transitions from their carnal being to their new spiritual positional standing with God that is "hid in Christ" (Col 3:3). The spiritual gifts are of heaven (nothing of earth), and where true joy, peace, and love resides.

Col 3:1-2
"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."

Eph 1:3
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:"

Phil 4:11-13
"Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."

2 Cor 12:10
"Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong."

Rom 8:35-39
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

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