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Thoughts in Worship
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-04-25-2018
This is devotional thought number 9 in our devotional series titled, “The Gospel According to Paul.”
“What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase? Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life. For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.) Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.” (Romans 6:1–8, NET).
Sometimes people see the blessing of salvation through Christ as permission to live any ole kind of way; strange, I know. This is why some people believe that once we are saved as young people (or at whatever age), we cannot do anything to lose our salvation, despite the Bible evidence to the contrary, that we continue to have the freedom to love or hate God until we are sealed in our decisions. Some see the story of Jonah’s initial disobedience, and the fact that the mariners on the ship he boarded learning about God through his experience, as God’s blessings upon his disobedience. In the same faulty thought process, some think Samson’s errors in judgment were orchestrated by God, to bring himself glory. I could go on, but suffice it to say, God is so loving and wise that He inspired Paul to get to the root of the matter I am seeking to illustrate here. Just because God has a way to work through our mess to bring about His glory does not mean that He is OK with our mess. We are not to wallow in the muck and mire of sin with the thought that our bad behavior will facilitate God getting glory somehow.
God’s plan for us, in light of the unfortunate reality that we love sin, is that we become baptized by the water and His Holy Spirit as a symbol of our death to sin. He wants us to yield ourselves to Him and allow Him to miraculously crucify our desires and willingness to break His holy Ten Commandments. He wants to bury our tendencies to disregard His love for us. He wants to forever destroy our justification for doing that which He has already condemned. In short, God wants to recreate us into the likeness of His Son. And, this recreation is symbolized by coming up out of the water in baptism just like Jesus arose from the grave that historic Sunday morning as the prophecies all foretold.
Sin does not need to dominate you, friends. When you give all that you are, and all that you have to God, He can destroy sin’s grasp on you and make you a new creation who loves all that Jesus loves.
I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, are you?.—L. David Harris (www.LDavidHarris.com)
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-04-25-2018
This is devotional thought number 9 in our devotional series titled, “The Gospel According to Paul.”
“What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase? Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life. For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.) Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.” (Romans 6:1–8, NET).
Sometimes people see the blessing of salvation through Christ as permission to live any ole kind of way; strange, I know. This is why some people believe that once we are saved as young people (or at whatever age), we cannot do anything to lose our salvation, despite the Bible evidence to the contrary, that we continue to have the freedom to love or hate God until we are sealed in our decisions. Some see the story of Jonah’s initial disobedience, and the fact that the mariners on the ship he boarded learning about God through his experience, as God’s blessings upon his disobedience. In the same faulty thought process, some think Samson’s errors in judgment were orchestrated by God, to bring himself glory. I could go on, but suffice it to say, God is so loving and wise that He inspired Paul to get to the root of the matter I am seeking to illustrate here. Just because God has a way to work through our mess to bring about His glory does not mean that He is OK with our mess. We are not to wallow in the muck and mire of sin with the thought that our bad behavior will facilitate God getting glory somehow.
God’s plan for us, in light of the unfortunate reality that we love sin, is that we become baptized by the water and His Holy Spirit as a symbol of our death to sin. He wants us to yield ourselves to Him and allow Him to miraculously crucify our desires and willingness to break His holy Ten Commandments. He wants to bury our tendencies to disregard His love for us. He wants to forever destroy our justification for doing that which He has already condemned. In short, God wants to recreate us into the likeness of His Son. And, this recreation is symbolized by coming up out of the water in baptism just like Jesus arose from the grave that historic Sunday morning as the prophecies all foretold.
Sin does not need to dominate you, friends. When you give all that you are, and all that you have to God, He can destroy sin’s grasp on you and make you a new creation who loves all that Jesus loves.
I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, are you?.—L. David Harris (www.LDavidHarris.com)
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Thoughts in Worship
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-04-25-2018
This is devotional thought number 9 in our devotional series titled, “The Gospel According to Paul.”
“What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase? Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life. For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.) Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.” (Romans 6:1–8, NET).
Sometimes people see the blessing of salvation through Christ as permission to live any ole kind of way; strange, I know. This is why some people believe that once we are saved as young people (or at whatever age), we cannot do anything to lose our salvation, despite the Bible evidence to the contrary, that we continue to have the freedom to love or hate God until we are sealed in our decisions. Some see the story of Jonah’s initial disobedience, and the fact that the mariners on the ship he boarded learning about God through his experience, as God’s blessings upon his disobedience. In the same faulty thought process, some think Samson’s errors in judgment were orchestrated by God, to bring himself glory. I could go on, but suffice it to say, God is so loving and wise that He inspired Paul to get to the root of the matter I am seeking to illustrate here. Just because God has a way to work through our mess to bring about His glory does not mean that He is OK with our mess. We are not to wallow in the muck and mire of sin with the thought that our bad behavior will facilitate God getting glory somehow.
God’s plan for us, in light of the unfortunate reality that we love sin, is that we become baptized by the water and His Holy Spirit as a symbol of our death to sin. He wants us to yield ourselves to Him and allow Him to miraculously crucify our desires and willingness to break His holy Ten Commandments. He wants to bury our tendencies to disregard His love for us. He wants to forever destroy our justification for doing that which He has already condemned. In short, God wants to recreate us into the likeness of His Son. And, this recreation is symbolized by coming up out of the water in baptism just like Jesus arose from the grave that historic Sunday morning as the prophecies all foretold.
Sin does not need to dominate you, friends. When you give all that you are, and all that you have to God, He can destroy sin’s grasp on you and make you a new creation who loves all that Jesus loves.
I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, are you?.—L. David Harris (www.LDavidHarris.com)
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-04-25-2018
This is devotional thought number 9 in our devotional series titled, “The Gospel According to Paul.”
“What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase? Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life. For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.) Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.” (Romans 6:1–8, NET).
Sometimes people see the blessing of salvation through Christ as permission to live any ole kind of way; strange, I know. This is why some people believe that once we are saved as young people (or at whatever age), we cannot do anything to lose our salvation, despite the Bible evidence to the contrary, that we continue to have the freedom to love or hate God until we are sealed in our decisions. Some see the story of Jonah’s initial disobedience, and the fact that the mariners on the ship he boarded learning about God through his experience, as God’s blessings upon his disobedience. In the same faulty thought process, some think Samson’s errors in judgment were orchestrated by God, to bring himself glory. I could go on, but suffice it to say, God is so loving and wise that He inspired Paul to get to the root of the matter I am seeking to illustrate here. Just because God has a way to work through our mess to bring about His glory does not mean that He is OK with our mess. We are not to wallow in the muck and mire of sin with the thought that our bad behavior will facilitate God getting glory somehow.
God’s plan for us, in light of the unfortunate reality that we love sin, is that we become baptized by the water and His Holy Spirit as a symbol of our death to sin. He wants us to yield ourselves to Him and allow Him to miraculously crucify our desires and willingness to break His holy Ten Commandments. He wants to bury our tendencies to disregard His love for us. He wants to forever destroy our justification for doing that which He has already condemned. In short, God wants to recreate us into the likeness of His Son. And, this recreation is symbolized by coming up out of the water in baptism just like Jesus arose from the grave that historic Sunday morning as the prophecies all foretold.
Sin does not need to dominate you, friends. When you give all that you are, and all that you have to God, He can destroy sin’s grasp on you and make you a new creation who loves all that Jesus loves.
I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, are you?.—L. David Harris (www.LDavidHarris.com)