Resurrection Life
You cannot have a resurrection without a death. It's not possible. This is a very simple observation that took on a new life for me today. If Jesus hadn’t died, He would not have been resurrected, and where would we be today? And if we hadn’t died, along with Jesus (partaking in His death), then we wouldn’t have been resurrected with Him either.
Sometimes it's easy to think of this death and resurrection with Christ as a one-time thing. However, 2nd Corinthians 4:10-11 tell us that this death that we die is supposed to be a process. The Word says we are always being handed over to death for the sake of Jesus so that we may have His resurrected life. Here is the passage from the Amplified Bible:
10 Always carrying about in the body the liability and exposure to the same putting to death that the Lord Jesus suffered, so that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be shown forth by and in our bodies. 11 For we who live are constantly [experiencing] being handed over to death for Jesus' sake, that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be evidenced through our flesh which is liable to death.
Actually, you should check out 2nd Corinthians 4:6-13. This is an awesome passage of Scripture (not that other passages aren't awesome too). (:
When something is dead, it is gone, and when something is resurrected in its place, that resurrected thing supersedes what was before. It is better. I must strive to cause those things that do not belong in me to die out so that God can replace them with better (resurrected) things. I want to become more and more like Christ, but the only way to do this is to continually die out so that I may be continually resurrected.
In Christ,
Clint Herman
Sometimes it's easy to think of this death and resurrection with Christ as a one-time thing. However, 2nd Corinthians 4:10-11 tell us that this death that we die is supposed to be a process. The Word says we are always being handed over to death for the sake of Jesus so that we may have His resurrected life. Here is the passage from the Amplified Bible:
10 Always carrying about in the body the liability and exposure to the same putting to death that the Lord Jesus suffered, so that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be shown forth by and in our bodies. 11 For we who live are constantly [experiencing] being handed over to death for Jesus' sake, that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be evidenced through our flesh which is liable to death.
Actually, you should check out 2nd Corinthians 4:6-13. This is an awesome passage of Scripture (not that other passages aren't awesome too). (:
When something is dead, it is gone, and when something is resurrected in its place, that resurrected thing supersedes what was before. It is better. I must strive to cause those things that do not belong in me to die out so that God can replace them with better (resurrected) things. I want to become more and more like Christ, but the only way to do this is to continually die out so that I may be continually resurrected.
In Christ,
Clint Herman
posted by Clint Herman @ 7:04 AM
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