GAL 1:6-10 “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:  Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.  But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.  As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.  For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ”.

Why is it important for a Believer to know his or her value in the eyes of God?Because your new state is not just permanent, it is Eternal.  You’re not just in union with Christ until death, and then you “make” heaven,  you have become one with God eternally.

1 Cor 6:17 “But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit with him”.
The effect of salvation is that you have become a “partaker” in the Divinity of the Godhead. Don’t take my own words for it. Let us see it in the Bible.

2 Pet 1:4 “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust”.
God placed so great a value on you and your relationship to Him that He took the trouble of setting aside His ‘Godship’ temporarily, then becoming a man in every form and likeness, dying the shameful death upon the Cross bearing man’s sins, and ressurecting from the dead to free mankind from the bondage of sin and death. By this supreme premeditated plan of redemption, you have now become an empowered New Creature in Him.

Rom 8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death”.
A second reason why it’s important to know what you’ve got, or rather, what you’ve become, is because you need to begin to boldly apply it.
At the end of Nigeria- Civil war, the Biafra currency was abrogated and Nigerian “Pound, Shillings and Pence” became our legal tender again. As a kid, I never knew what that meant until I got a rude but pleasant awakening. Someone had given me a “shilling” and sent me off to buy a meal of fried bean cakes with it. Before I left on the errand, he gave me a dish to bring home the meal. This looked so stupid to me because I knew  the “old Biafra shilling” couldn’t buy me a piece of bean-cake, except the old lady would be generous to me. But to go with a covered dish, that sounded stupid. To my surprise, the old lady filled the dish with 13 balls of bean cakes. It was only then that the value of the new currency registered home to me. Again, what is the value of your new life in Christ?

Colossians 3:4 “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory”.
Christ is our life after we believed; indeed after we received Him. So what value do you place in the life of Christ?
Do you measure it by the size of house you live in? Do you measure it by your physical height or figure? Do you measure it by your level of education or social standing?
While all these are good attainments, they’re not the measure of a Believer’s worth.
The believer’s worth is the “Blessed Hope”. The hope of glory.

Col 1:27 “…To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:”.
This is the original “Doctrine of Christ”. This is the “faith that was once delivered to the saints which  Jude charges us to contend for.

Jude 1:3 “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints”. 
The gospel is only one if presented in it’s purity and utter simplicity which is: “Christ came into the world to save all sinners, for which i am chief”..( 1 Tim 1:15)
But over the years, perversion had crept into the Gospel. Some did so out of innocent zeal, others out of mischief.
 Even some of our celebrated Christian workers are not exempt from this overzealous misrepresentation.
Martin Luther in his teaching declared that ‘Humans were like a pile of manure’.
John Calvin in his doctrine of total depravity expounded nearly the same viewpoint perhaps to a more alarming degree.
Same goes for Jonathan Edwards in his well known sermon:  “sinners in the hands of an angry God.”
Just to mention a few.
So centuries down the line, the worth of the “human soul” for which Christ died was continually de-valued.
From the above concepts which came up only 500 years back. Christianity then becomes a system of sin management by the clergy in-order to manage and squeeze you through the pearly gates of heaven when you die….
Some tag it “making heaven”.
Pitiful indeed.

Conclusion: 2 Cor 2:16-17 “To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.”

– Nich Mbaezue Ph.D