Romans 6:5
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
When Jesus chose to accept the will of His Father, He chose to die on the Cross for the sins of all mankind. Jesus’ death did not come quickly. It was necessary for Jesus to suffer every scourge mark, to suffer every ounce of pain and to suffer the loss of every drop of blood for His sacrifice for mankind to be made complete.
When we chose to accept Jesus Christ as Our Savior, we chose to let our old sinful man die. Just as Jesus’ death was not carried out quickly, our old sinful nature will not be completely put to rest in short fashion. For the old sinful man in us to die completely, we will have to endure trials, tribulations and sufferings of all type that will transform us to be completely in the will of Our Father in heaven.
With the sacrifice of His human body complete, the Holy Spirit resurrected Jesus’ spirit from His body to return in His glorified body to the Father. When we die in Christ, the same power of His resurrection will lift us from our old lives in the flesh and enable us to stand sinless before the Father in our glorified bodies. It will not be because we became better people. It will be because we will have become completely new people in Christ. It will be because we have been united with Him through His resurrection for all eternity.
Let us joyfully claim our victory over death and sin. Let us exalt the name of Our Resurrected Savior.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, thank You for raising Your Son to meet You in heaven after His death on the Cross. Thank You for preparing the way for us to gain our eternal inheritance as Your children through the power of the Resurrection. Father, release the full power of the Holy Spirit in our lives so that we can surrender completely to our new lives in Christ, leaving behind forever the old man that torments us daily. We ask all these things in the name of Our Risen Lord, Jesus Christ.
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There’s a misconception in the church houses today that leads new converts to believe that if you come to the alter and give your life to Christ then we will walk in the “newness of life” and all problems just disappear. Immediately we think new house,new cars, new job… new freedom within our treasures. After, a season we always find that the consequences of our selfishness is part of the process that brings us to the end of our delusions to a place where we find God again. This process of suffering is the only way that we can enter into the Kingdom. Clearly Daddy tells us that we must endure hardship as good soldiers. There’s nothing easy about dying to self. For so many years we’ve ran these selfish self centered self seeking self willed ran riots so it will not be easy to die to him. This newness of life is the new nature, the new wine the very Spirit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who laid His life down so that we can be partakers of the divine nature. No one taught us as toddlers to take, punch and scream. It’s in our fallen nature. We have to learn not to do these things. Once we’ve been broken by the process like a wild horse to it’s master and completely yielded to the directions of his reins then we’ll began to seek Him as lost treasure. His Spirit will quicken us transforming our minds/nature into His image and likeness. Not better but new.
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