-CHRIST=OUR REDEEMER!
['Redeemed from what?' you may be asking.]--We all were born into sin. ALL! "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
---(Romans 3:23) "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be.
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God."
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--BURIED WITH HIM ~~“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” (Romans 6:4) The burial of Christ after His death was extremely important for two reasons.
First, it assures us that His death was a physical death and that His resurrection was a bodily resurrection.
Second, His burial—like His death and resurrection—has profound doctrinal and practical significance for the believer’s individual life.
All this is pictured, as our text points out, by the ordinance of baptism, displaying symbolically the death of Christ for sin and the death of the believer to sin, then the burial of the corruptible body of flesh (which, for all but Christ, returns to dust in accordance with God’s primeval curse). And finally, the resurrection, demonstrating Christ’s eternal victory over sin and death, and, in the case of the believer, the beginning of the new life in Christ.
The same truth appears again in
Colossians 2:12:
“Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.” Although these are the only New Testament passages where the doctrinal implications of Christ’s burial are specifically mentioned, the spiritual truths taught thereby permeate all the Scriptures. If our old bodies of sin are—at least positionally—already in the grave, then it is altogether grotesque for them still to be walking around in sin.
“For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection” (Romans 6:5). We shall walk in newness of life, triumphant daily over sin through the implanted resurrection life of our victorious Savior.
--ICR/ HMM[When a person gives his/her life to Christ Jesus, he is putting off the old man and it's sinful ways and now following Jesus. Jesus will help us grow into His likeness. We can not do this on our own.
Why? Because Satan is the god of this world until Jesus returns. Once you have sincerely turned your life over to Jesus Christ, HE will help you to walk in the newness of life.
"But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
--(Romans 7:6)[Have you been redeemed by Jesus? "If you sincerely believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, you will be saved."
(Romans 10:9-10)To be baptized by water, after you are already saved spiritually by confession, and accepting Jesus death on the Cross for payment of your sins, you admit you need Him to take over your life. Your 'SURRENDER TO JESUS', simply means 'you put off the old man and put on the new man, alive in Jesus Christ.' Baptism is an outer expression of a new inward change of life. You no longer desire the things of the world. You are dead to the world, and alive in Christ Jesus.
"Who the Son sets free is free indeed!//
FOREVER REIGN / -Hillsong ~<
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