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Spiritual Training 25 January 2013

Posted: January 25, 2013 in Acceptance, Bible Study, Encourgement, Inspiration, Personal Growth, Proverbs, Romans, Spiritual Training, trust in the Lord with all your heart, Uncategorized, Under Gods Command
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Dead to sin, Alive in Christ

Romans 6:12 (11) In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. (12)Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

How can we keep this command to not let sin reign over us, to not give in to its desires? We can take the following steps:

(1) Identify our personal weaknesses,
(2) Recognize the things that tempt us,
(3) Stay away from sources of temptation,
(4) Practice self-restraint,
(5) Lean on God’s strength and grace.

Lets Bring it Home: The first two requires us to make a list. The third one requires us to stay away. The fourth is training, and the fourth is the answer for all four. Are we really on God’s strength and grace?

Spiritual Training 24 January 2013

Posted: January 24, 2013 in Acceptance, Bible Study, Encourgement, Inspiration, Personal Growth, Romans, Spiritual Training, trust in the Lord with all your heart, Uncategorized, Under Gods Command
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 Dead to sin, Alive in Christ

Romans 6:8-11 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.  For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.  The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 

11) In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

 “Count yourselves dead to sin” means that we should regard our old sinful nature as dead and unresponsive to sin.  Because of our union and identification with Christ, we are no longer obligated to carry out those old motives, desires, and goals. So let us consider ourselves to be what God has in fact made us.

Lets Bring it Home:  We have a new start, and the Holy Spirit will help us become in our daily experience what Christ has declared us to be.

Spiritual Training 16 January 2013

Posted: January 16, 2013 in Acceptance, Bible Study, Encourgement, Inspiration, Personal Growth, Proverbs, Romans, Spiritual Training, trust in the Lord with all your heart, Uncategorized, Under Gods Command
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Romans 6:1-4 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?  By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer.  Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. 

In the church of Paul’s day, immersion was the usual form of baptism-that is, new Christians were completely “buried” in water.  They understood this form of baptism to symbolize the death and burial of the old way of life.  Coming up out of the water-symbolized resurrection to new life with Christ.

Lets Bring it Home:  If we think of our old, sinful life as dead and buried, we have a powerful motive to resist sin.  We can consciously choose to treat the desires and temptations of the old nature as if they were dead.  Then we can continue to enjoy our wonderful new life with Jesus.

Spiritual Training 13 December 2012

Posted: December 13, 2012 in Acceptance, Bible Study, Encourgement, Inspiration, Personal Growth, Romans, Spiritual Training, trust in the Lord with all your heart, Uncategorized, Under Gods Command
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Romans 3:22-24 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus

Some sins seem bigger than others because their obvious consequences are much more serious.  Murder, for example, seems to us to be worse than hatred, and adultery seems worse then lust.  But this does not mean that because we do lesser sins we deserve eternal life.  All sin makes us sinners, and all sin cuts us off from our holy God.  All sin, therefore leads to death (because it disqualifies us from living with God), regardless of how great or small it seems.

Lets Bring It Home: Justified means to be declared not guilty.  When a judge in a court of law declares the defendant not guilty, all the charges are removed from his record.  Legally, it is as if the person had never been accused.  When God forgives our sins, our records are wiped clean.  From his perspective, it is as though we had never sinned.

Spiritual Training 11 December 2012

Posted: December 11, 2012 in Acceptance, Bible Study, Encourgement, Inspiration, Personal Growth, Spiritual Training, trust in the Lord with all your heart, Uncategorized, Under Gods Command
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Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 

Some sins seem bigger than others because their obvious consequences are much more serious.  Murder, for example, seems to us to be worse than hatred, and adultery seems worse then lust.  But this does not mean that because we do lesser sins we deserve eternal life.  All sin makes us sinners, and all sin cuts us off from our holy God.  All sin, therefore leads to death (because it disqualifies us from living with God), regardless of how great or small it seems.

Lets Bring It Home: Don’t minimize “little” sins or overate “big” sins.  They all separate us from God, but they all can be forgiven. Seek Gods forgiveness now before its to late.

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