When you die to self, embracing the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for your sin, you lay your life down and the Holy Spirit comes to live New Life within you. You are no longer your own, but have been bought with the price of Jesus Christ dying the death and the separation from all goodness that you deserved. In this New and Eternal life, the Holy Spirit lives in the followers of Jesus Christ. Being united to both Jesus’ death and resurrection, physical death is now but a transition from this life to Eternal Life in God’s Presence. Dying before you die (thus bring united to the Life of Jesus Christ), when you die, you will not die (not be separated from God). The second death comes to those who have rejected the grace of God, those for whom God simply did not matter in earthly life. We are now in Holy Week. Please do not scorn the love of God, His provision of forgiveness, new Life, meaning and purpose.
James 1:5-8 " If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. But when you ask Him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do." We must remember that God is never upset that we don't know or understand how to live out the New Life He has given to us. That Life is now being lived out in us by the Holy Spirit. This Life of the Kingdom is radically different that the life we are accustomed to living in concert with the world. One of the main marks of a true follower of Jesus Christ is that there is change and ongoing change in us by the Holy Spirit. We do not remain as we once were. The Holy Spirit is conforming us to the Image o...
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