The Believer's Resurrection With Christ

Question! How can one die to the old life and be raised to walk in newness of life? The answer is: -(by grace through faith). What Christ has done for us by grace, we must receive and appropriate by faith. Jesus by an act of infinite grace, identified Himself with us, dying our death. We by an act of simple faith, must identify ourselves with Him, confessing "I am a sinner, it is my death He is dying. I will accept His grace and commit myself to Him for salvation." The moment this is done we become one with the once- crucified, ever living Christ.

May I say; Calvary is the meeting place where the identification is effected. No man was ever made one with Christ without being made one with Him in His death. The apostle Paul says in Romans 6:3-4 "Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Child of God, When the sinner acknowledges Christ death as his own and trust Christ for salvation, not only does he receive a standing before God as having been crucified, buried and raised with Christ, but the Spirit seals the transaction, uniting him in a vital, living relationship with Christ. The believer actually becomes a partaker of Christ resurrection life.

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:1-3

THE BEREAN NOTEPAD
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