Romans 6:11. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. In yesterday’s reading we talked about knowing
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
Romans 6:11. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. In yesterday’s reading we talked about knowing
Proverbs 20:9. Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”? Whereas, every other religion seeks to show us
“To live is Christ” has freed us from the system of this world. Our hearts are meant for so much more than such dead religion, such regulation keeping, such “cause-effect” basics. In fact, we have died to all these. And now we are alive to dwell within the wild and wonderful love of God. A love that is a law to itself. A law that is a life that has been hidden with Christ in God.
“To live is Christ” is the daily, moment by moment, discipline of considering who you really are. You are dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. This is your new reality.
Only as we are made more and more aware of our sin (you are the man), and convinced more and more that we have died to that sin (blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity), will sin then die in our lives as we rely less and less on the self and more and more on “to live is Christ.”
“To live is Christ” is a life of walking in freedom through the sea but also on the dry ground of Jesus Christ. Following him into the waters of his holiness that would save us by drowning all that would enslave us.