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RESURRECTION POWER

Now if anyone does not have

the Spirit of Christ, he or she

is not His.

And if Christ is in you, the body

is dead because of sin, but the Spirit

is alive because of  righteousness.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised

Jesus from the dead dwells in you,

He who raised Christ from the dead

will also give life to your mortal bodies

through His Spirit who dwells in you.

( Romans 8.9b-11).

INSPIRATION FOR MEDITATION

Meditate on the following:

1) God’s Holy Spirit living in you

verifies that you are His and belong

to Christ.

2) Jesus Christ bestows us His life and

His righteousness.

2) The body is mortal, but the Holy Spirit

is eternal.

3) The Holy Spirit gives life now and

forever. God’s Holy Spirit is in complete

communion with the Father and the Son

in the perfect , unique unity and harmony

of the Holy Trinity.

4) God’s Spirit raised Christ from the

dead and will give life to our mortal

bodies.

Because the mind of the flesh

 with its carnal thoughts and

purposes is hostile to God,

for it does not submit itself

to God’s Law, indeed it cannot.

So then those who are living

the life of the flesh, catering

to the appetites and impulses

of their carnal nature cannot

please or satisfy God, or be

acceptable to Him.

But you are not living in the

life of the flesh, you are living

the life of the Spirit, if the Holy Spirit

of God really dwells within you and

directs you.

( Romans 8.7-8a).

INSPIRATION FOR MEDITATION

Meditate on the following:

1) The thought pattern prior to

spiritual rebirth.

2) The new thought pattern after

being filled with God’s Holy Spirit.

3) The contrast between those two

thought patterns.

For those who live according to

the flesh set their minds on the

things of the flesh, but those who

live according to the Spirit, the

things of the Spirit.

For to be carnally minded is death,

but to be spiritually minded is

life and peace.

( Romans 8.5 and 6).

RIGHT THINKING

HALLMARK OF A  SPIRITUAL

MIND

Consider and meditate on the following:

1) Carnal minds contemplate merely

physical thoughts. Their sphere of

ideation is restricted to things, places,

activities related to physical desires.

2) Those who live according to the

Holy Spirit meditate on Spiritual

concepts and reflect on the ideas

inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Spirit led thoughts characterized by

love, joy, peace,patience,kindness,

goodness and faithfulness are the

hallmark of a spiritual mind.

3) When you are spiritually minded

you have eternal, unconditional

life and peace. The Kingdom of God

is right thinking, peace and joy in

the Holy Spirit.

 For what the law could not do

in that it was weak through the

flesh, God did by sending His

own Son in the likeness of

sinful  flesh, on account of sin.

He condemned sin in the flesh.

That the righteous requirement

of the Law might be fulfilled in us

who do not walk according to the

flesh but according to the Spirit.

( Romans 8.3 and 4).

INSPIRATION FOR REFLECTION

Reflect on these points:

1) Jesus Christ came in the

likeness of sinful flesh, yet

totally righteous.

2) Jesus Christ condemned sin

in the flesh. He paid our sin debt

in full.

3) The righteous requirements of

the law are fulfilled in us because

Jesus Christ fulfilled all righteousness

for us.

4) Thanks to Jesus Christ we are now

counted righteous by walking according

to the  Spirit.

4) Spirituality implies being spiritual by

being Spirit led under the guidance of the

Holy Spirit.

REALLY FREE

 There is therefore now no condemnation

to those who are in Christ Jesus,

who do not walk according to the flesh,

but according to the Spirit.

For the law of the Spirit of life

in Christ Jesus has freed me

from the law of sin and death.

( Romans 8.1 and 2).

INSPIRATION FOR

THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE

Consider these:

1) The meaning of true freedom.

2) Declared: “Not guilty!” by God Himself.

3) Being in Christ Jesus.

4) Walking according to the Spirit.

5) The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus

sets us free from the law of sin and death.

Every one of these points are of monumental

importance and deserve in- depth exploration.

Meditate and reflect on each of these.

For the wages of sin is death,

but the gift of God is eternal life

in Christ Jesus our Lord.

( Romans 6.23)

But as many as received Him,

to them He gave the right

to become the children of God,

even to those who believe

in His name.

( John 1.12)

For I delivered to you first

of all that which I also received:

that Christ died for our sins

according to the Scriptures,

and that He was buried,

and that He rose again

the third day according

to the Scriptures.

( I. Corinthians 15.3 and 4).

HALLELUJAH!

PRAISE AND INSPIRATION

In His wonderful love God

provided His amazing solution

to the problem of sin, evil

and death by sending His

Unique Son Jesus Christ

to live His perfect life as

a human and atoned for

humanity on the cross

by His shed blood and rose

again so we can live with Him,

with the Father and with the

Holy Spirit forever.

EXPERIENCE THE INTENSE, INTIMATE

AND EXTREMELY RICH LOVE OF THE

FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT

FOREVER!

Make your decision now, to submit to

Jesus as your Lord and Savior by

praying the following prayer:

Lord God, I confess that I am a sinner.

I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ

died for my sins on the cross and  was

raised for my justification.

I do now receive and confess Him

as my Lord and Savior. AMEN!

Now if I do what I do not desire

to do, it is no longer I who do it,

but sin that dwells in me.

So I find it to be a rule of action

within my being that when I want

to do what is right and good, there

is evil in me, though I desire to do good.

For I delight in the Law of God

according to the inward man.

But I see another law in my members,

at war against the law of my mind,

making me a prisoner to the law of

sin which is in my members.

O wretched man that I am!

Who will deliver me from this

body of death?

I thank God! He will through Jesus

Christ our Lord!

So then, with the mind I myself

serve the Law of God, but with the

flesh the law of sin.

( Romans 7.20-25).

Please consider these points:

1) This dual nature presents a dilemma.

2) Flesh versus mind ( carnal versus

spiritual) continue to be in conflict.

3) The only way out of this dilemma

is to submit to the Lordship of Jesus.

4) The divine rescue mission is

accomplished by Jesus Christ our

Lord and Savior who died to deliver us

from our sins and rose to grant us

eternal life with Him, with The Father

and with the Holy Spirit.

If I do what is contrary to

my desire, I agree with

the Law that it is good.

However, it is no longer

I who do it, but sin

that dwells in me.

For I know that nothing

good dwells in me.

I can will what is right,

but have no power to

carry it out.

For I fail to do the good

that I desire to do.

On the other hand,

I wind up doing what

I do not want to do.

Now if I do what I do not

desire to do, it is no longer

I who do it, but sin that dwells

in me.

Consider this:

1) The inertia that is caused

by human nature.

2) Human nature likes to

take the path of least resistance.

3) Human nature causes failure.

We need God’s Holy Spirit to do right.

SPIRITUALITY AND CARNALITY

Therefore the law is holy,

and the commandment

holy, just and good.

Has then what is good

become death to me?

Certainly not!

But sin, that it might

appear sin, was producing

death in me through what

is good, so that sin through

the commandment become

exceedingly sinful.

For we know that the Law is

spiritual, but I am carnal

sold under sin.

For what I am doing I do not

understand.

For what I will to do I do not

but what I hate, that I do.

If then, I do what I will not

to do, I agree with the Law

that it is good.

( Romans 7. 12-16).

Meditate on the following:

1) The Law is God’s standard.

2) Carnal man acts against that

standard.

3) Carnality is contrary to God.

4) The Law is spiritual because

God is Spirit.

THE NATURE OF SIN

What then do we conclude?

Is the Law identical with sin?

Certainly not! Nevertheless,

if it had not been for the Law,

I would not have recognized

sin. For instance I would not

have known about covetousness

if the Law had not said, You should

not covet and have an evil desire.

But sin, finding an opportunity, to

express itself got a hold on me and

provoked forbidden desires such as

lust and covetousness. For without

the Law sin is inactive.

Once I was alive, but quite apart from

the Law. But when the commandment

came, sin came alive and I died.

And the very legal ordinance which was

designed to bring life actually proved

death.

For sin, seizing the opportunity from the

commandment, beguiled me and using it

as a weapon, killed me.

The Law therefore is holy, and the

commandment is holy, just and good.

Romans 7.7-12).

Consider the following:

1) The Law is just, holy and good.

2) The problem is with human

sinful nature.

3) Sinful nature is enticed and

entrapped by the allure of sin.

4) Sin ends in death.

5) This is a vicious cycle which

is at work on those unaware

of the Law also.

6) The notion of sin or taboo is

pervasive in every society and

every human heart.

( More on this in Romans 2.14 and 15).

7) The Law proscribes what is taboo

in God’s sight and regulates human behavior.

However, the root cause of sinful behavior,

the violation of taboo, is wrong thinking due

to sinful nature.

Right action is predicated on right thinking.

A new mind based on spiritual rebirth is required.

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ grants this to us.

He paid our sin debt in full. We can be reborn of

the water and the Spirit. This is how we enter the

Kingdom of God, become a new creation in Him and live

forever with Him, the Father and the Holy Spirit.

WE THANK YOU FOREVER LORD JESUS!

HALLELUJAH!