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As for you, you were dead in your

transgressions and sins, in which

you used to live when you followed

the ways of this world and of the ruler

of the kingdom of the air, the spirit

who is at work in those who are

disobedient.

All of us also lived among them at

one time, gratifying the cravings

of our sinful nature and following

its desires and thoughts.

Like the rest, we were by nature

objects of wrath.

But because of His great love for us,

God, Who is rich in mercy, made us

alive with Christ even when we were

dead in transgressions- it is by grace

you have been saved.

And God raised us up with Christ and

seated us up with Him in the heavenly

realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in

the coming ages He might show the

incomparable riches of His grace, expressed

in His kindness to us in Christ  Jesus.

For it is by grace you have been saved,

through faith- and this is not from

yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by

works, so that no one can boast.

For we are God’s workmanship,

created in Christ Jesus to do good

works, which God prepared in advance

for us to do.

(Ephesians 2.1-10).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

But, because of His great love for us,

God Who is rich in mercy, made us

alive in Christ even when we were

dead in transgressions- it is by grace

you have been saved.

(Ephesians 2.5).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

When you were dead in your sins

and the uncircumcision of your

sinful nature, God made you alive

with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,

having canceled the written code,

with its regulations, that was against us

and that stood opposed to us; He took

it away, nailing it to the cross. And having

disarmed the powers and authorities,

He made a public spectacle of them,

triumphing over them by the cross.

(Colossians 2.13-15).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

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.

In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin,

but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

(Romans 6.8-11).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

But because of His great love for us, God,

Who is rich in mercy, made us alive

with Christ even when we were dead in

transgressions- it is by grace you have

been saved.

(Ephesians 2.4 & 5).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

For since death came trough a man, the resurrection of the dead comes

also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ will all be made alive.

But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when He comes, those

who belong to Him. Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom

to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.

For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last

enemy to be destroyed is death. For He has put everything under His feet.

Now when it says that “everything” has been put under Him, it is clear that

this does not include God Himself, Who put everything under Christ. When

He has done this, then the Son Himself will be made subject to Him Who put

everything under Him, so that God may be all in all.

(I. Corinthians 15. 21-28).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

Truly Alive

The best human efforts, earnest intentions and extreme diligence fall short of the glory of God.

But a man under grace is made alive in Christ:

 ” 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 the newness of life.

For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death,

certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection.”

(Romans 6.4&5).

We are either dead (the default position) or alive.

If we are dead, we have died to the Law and

have been freed from sin:

“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.

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also

live with Him.”

(Romans 6.6-8).

With the human body of Christ Jesus our Lord who died on the Cross

of Golgotha, the human impossibility of full obedience to God has

been replaced by God’s possibility of the new life in Christ.

We were crucified with Him. so that we can live with Him.

We have been taken out of the realm of Law

of sin and death, of human behavior and failure.

We are brought into the Kingdom of God’s Dear Son.

HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

MADE RIGHT

Who shall bring any charge against

God’s elect, when it is God Who puts

us in right relation to Himself ?

Who shall come forward and accuse

or impeach those whom God has chosen?

Will God, Who acquits us?

( Romans 8.33).

MEDITATION AND PRAYER POINTS

Meditate and pray about the following:

1) The immense peace that comes from

knowing that you are loved and accepted

by God Himself.

2) The fact that God, Who is rich in mercy,

because of His great love with which He

loved us,

Even when we were dead in trespasses,

made us alive together with Christ ( by

grace you have been saved),

And raised us up together, and made us

sit together in the heavenly places in

Christ Jesus. ( Ephesians 2.4-6).

Do you not know brothers and sisters,

for I am speaking to those who are

acquainted with the Law, that the legal claims

have power over a person only for as

long as he or she is alive?

For instance, a married woman is bound

by law to her husband as long as he lives,

but if her husband dies, she is discharged

from the law concerning her husband.

Accordingly, if while her husband lives,

she marries another man, she will be

called an adulteress, but if her husband

dies, she is free from that law, so that

if she marries another man she is not an

adulteress.

Likewise my brothers and sisters you

have undergone death as to the Law

through the crucified body of Christ,

so that you may now belong to Another,

to Him Who was raised from the dead

in order that we may bear fruit to God.

( Romans 7.1-4).

Consider this and meditate:

1) The Law stipulated the codes

of behavior that is accepted by God.

2) We are alive in a new way which

brings about true righteousness,

spiritual life and eternal union with

God through our Lord  and Savior Jesus

Christ who rose from the dead and brought

about our justification and sanctification.

TRUE FREEDOM

Even so consider yourselves also

dead to sin and your relation to it

broken, but alive to God, living in

unbroken fellowship with Him, in

Christ Jesus.

Therefore do not let sin rule in you

mortal body, that you should obey it

in its lusts.

And do not present your members

as instruments of unrighteousness

to sin, but present yourselves to God

as being alive from the dead, and your

members as instruments of righteousness

to God.

For sin shall not have dominion over you,

for you are not under law but under grace.

What then, shall we sin because we are not

under law but under grace? Certainly not!

Do you not know that to whom you present

yourselves as servants to obey, you are that one’s

servants whom you obey, whether of sin leading

to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

But thank God that though you were servants of sin,

yet you obeyed from the heart that form of  teaching

to which you were delivered.

And having been set free from sin, you have become

servants of righteousness.

( Romans 6.11-18).

Consider the following:

1) The meaning of freedom

2) Thought, purpose and action

patterns that lead to true freedom

Meditate and pray about these.

The Holy Spirit guides God’s children

into all truth and obedience to His will.

TRUE FREEDOM IS DOING THE THINGS
WHICH BRING ETERNAL DIVIDENDS