OUR FATHER TO WHOM CHRIST LIVES AND WE AS WELL IF WE ARE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST

Romans chapter 5 verses 4 - 11 discusses the reality of sharing in the life of Christ if we have shared in the death of Christ. The Apostle Paul phasises that an effect of dying with Christ is that in death, the flesh is dead and we are able to live apart from the influence of sin on our lives. The flesh cannot forcefully excert  itˋs desires as it is dead and thus we are able to live in the victory over sin that Christ accomplied through His ressurection from death that he suffered on the cross. In this victory, we can live in God as Christ lives in God.

4 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Amen.

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