Now that we’ve been saved from past sins by Christ’s death, is it up to us now to obey God? It seems like it is in Romans 6:12, “Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.” That sounds like it’s up to us now [...]
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So how can we be “dead to sin,” Romans 6:11, and “freed from sin,” verse 7, but then be told in verse 12 to “not let sin reign” in us or “obey its evil desires?” If sin no longer has mastery over us, why the worry about falling victim to it again? But if we [...]
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After God’s got us into eternity through Christ’s death, he can now grow us up because he’s got us exactly where he wants us, right there beside him! That’s where we are now as Christians, Ephesians 2:6 - “God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms.” [...]
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Jesus has us on a journey, just like Aslan had the children on a journey in Narnia, because it’s the journey that grew them up. It wasn’t their efforts or their determination or “doing their part” that made them grow, it was simply what happened to them on the journey. As [...]
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Living in Christ’s world, under grace, is no bed of roses. It’s wonderful that we’re in it, because once we’re in it Jesus isn’t going to lose us, but just like the children in Narnia we face an ugly world still and we’ve still got a nature that thinks some pretty awful thoughts. [...]
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As we enter eternity, or experience the beginnings of our eternal life now, there are two things Paul says we can count on, Romans 6:11. First, we can “count ourselves dead to sin,” and secondly that we’re “alive to God,” both of which were accomplished for us by Jesus – the first one [...]
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We now walk with Jesus in eternity, or, as Paul put it in Romans 6:5, “If we have been united with him in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.” If we got this far, of believing Jesus’ death got us to eternity, then we can be [...]
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Eternal life is to be experienced. This is what Jesus died and rose for, Romans 5:21, ”so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Eternal life is ours to experience now because of Jesus. He “brings” eternal life to us, to use Paul’s term, [...]
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Justified, reconciled, saved, they’re all old-fashioned words that may not mean much in today’s English. So are words like righteousness, sanctification and atonement. So, perhaps, are sin, faith and grace. And yet they’re all essential words in the explanation and description of what God accomplished for us in Jesus Christ. Can [...]
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When the children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe step into the magical land of Narnia, they have no clue whatsoever what’s coming next. Nor do we as we step into our eternal life now, but like the children in Narnia, we get clues and hints along the way. [...]
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