December 30, 2022 ALIVE TO GOD
Romans 6:11-13 “Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lust, and do not go on presenting the members of your body as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
It is a contradiction to scripture to think that ‘I am a sinner saved by grace, but I continue to sin.’ The problem with that belief is that it nullifies or contradicts the truth of the gospel, that the power of sin over us has been broken, and it is saying that we do not consider ourselves dead to sin. Simply said, we do not have to sin. It would not be right to see ourselves as sinless; neither would be right to see ourselves as sinners who continue to sin. What is right is to see that we have a choice of yielding to our flesh which is sin, or yielding ourselves to the Spirit and not sin. A key truth is that sin does not have power over us any longer; we are free to live according to the Spirit. It is crucial that we consider ourselves dead to sin-and not consider ourselves as sinners. The importance of how we consider ourselves could never be overstated; we live according to how we ‘consider’ ourselves-sinners who sin or saints who do not yield to sin. The good news is that we are alive to God! God has raised us from the dead; before we came to know God as Savior, we were dead in our sins and trespasses. Now, we have been forgiven and restored to our Father, we can enjoy fellowship with our Father, and He lives is us. We must grasp the wonderful truth that we no longer have to let “sin reign in our mortal bodies.” We can now present ourselves to God as those alive from the dead use our mortal bodies as instruments of righteousness. Let us make this practical-today, let us be instruments of righteousness and be used by God to reveal His love and His character. We are alive to God!
1 John 5:12 “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.”
John 14:6 “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Ephesians 2:4-5 “But because of His great love for us, God who is rich in mercy, made us alive in Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved.”
Blessings,
Buddy
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