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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Thursday, April 18, 2024
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Our Old Self, Crucified with Christ Bible Verse:Romans 6:5-11 (ESV) "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. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. " Message:
In the previous verses, Paul discussed the concept of dying to sin. We symbolically die when we are baptized, so that we can be born again. Today, he emphasizes the second part of death and resurrection, the concept of living in Jesus.
At the time Romans was written, there were still people alive who had physically lived with Jesus. They had talked with him, lived with him, touched him. They had been taught from his own mouth. They had seen him murdered and a few had even witnessed his resurrection.
Being human, many had not believed in him even when they saw him in person. None who wanted to live with him and in him, however, were rejected. Nobody was too poor, too ugly, too sick or deformed, too stupid, too awkward, too sinful, too hated by others. All who were willing were invited to share in his life, his death, and his resurrection.
The gospel’s basic message is that it is not too late to share in Christ’s resurrection. Once we die to sin, by our belief and by our baptism symbolic of that death, we can share in Christ’s victory over death. You only die once. If you choose to die with Christ during your earthly existence, your life on earth becomes the first part of your eternal life with Christ.
This only goes so far: for while we are human, we will sin. Having died to sin, we will hate it, but we cannot be completely free from it. But if we have died to sin, we find ourselves trying to avoid it, because we hate it; and when it happens, we know that we are forgiven. Our faith in Christ includes faith in our forgiveness.
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