Cream in the Coffee
Analogy★★★★ON THE day that you came to faith in Christ, you entered into a spiritual union with Him. What exactly is a spiritual union? Many people drink coffee with cream. When cream is added to coffee, a union occurs. The blackness of the coffee and the whiteness of the cream are now integrated and made one. The coffee becomes brown because of the union. The coffee is not considered black-and-white coffee; it’s just a cup of coffee! When you drink it you now have to drink the black coffee with the white cream because they have become one. If someone were to try to separate the cream from the coffee, there would be chaos in the cup. Once the union of cream with coffee has occurred, no separation is possible.
The Bible says that when we came to Jesus Christ for salvation, we entered into an indissolvable union with Him so that what happened to Christ happened to us. Christ died. We died. Christ arose. We arose with Him. Christ ascended. We ascended with Him.
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The point
Using the analogy of cream and coffee becoming one, illustrates the indissolvable spiritual union with Christ through salvation.
The lesson
When we trust in Jesus, we become one with Him forever, sharing in His death and resurrection.