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Song of Solomon 5:2, “I was asleep, but my heart was awake. A
voice! My beloved was knocking. ‘Open to me, my sister, my
darling, my dove, my perfect one! For my head is drenched with
dew. My locks with the damp of the night.’” The bride was sleeping
but her heart was awake. She said, “I hear a voice knocking at the
door”; a voice knocking. A voice is the word of God. Knocking is
someone wanting to come in. Every time God speaks, he wants to
come in. His voice is an invitation and He wants to come and have
us respond to His word.

Heavenly Father, we ask You to speak to us and enable us to open
the door so that you can come in. We know how much we need
You. Show us the Lord Jesus in a fresh way and living way. Deliver
us from cold academics and show us the Living Word. We ask in
Jesus’ name. Amen

We are looking at these great foundations of our faith. The
foundation I’d like to look at now is called “Union with Jesus”,
“Union with Christ”. That truth is all over the Bible and especially
in the New Testament. It’s so comprehensive. We’re to abide in
Christ as a branch abides in the vine. We’re to relate to Christ as a
bride relates to a husband, and like children relate to their parents.
What the head is to the body, that’s union. What the sun is to the
earth, that’s union. What the soil is to the plant is a picture of union.
When you read the epistles of the New Testament, the expression
“in Christ” is used over and over and over.

The Bible says that we are found in Christ, preserved in Christ,
sanctified in Christ Jesus and we are rooted in Christ in Jesus and
we’re made perfect in the Lord. We’re called to think in the Lord,
walk in the Lord, speak in the Lord, labor in the Lord, suffer in the
Lord, and rejoice in the Lord. Everything is in Christ Jesus. We
conquer in the Lord. We get married only in the Lord. Children
obey their parents in the Lord. We receive one another in Christ
Jesus. We reign in life in Christ Jesus. We submit to one another in