There is New Life available in God’s Spirit
Romans 7:4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
MESSAGE TITLES
Yield to God as an Instrument of Righteousness
Your Soul Thirsts for Righteousness
Jesus Went Through Hell
Circumcision of the Heart
Live in Your New Life
We’re not longing for righteousness, it’s ours now. We’re not dehydrated needing God to give us righteousness, we can drink of it now and never thirst again. We’re at a place where we get to enjoy the fruit of righteousness.
It’s satisfying when you can live in the power of grace and properly steward your righteousness. It’s rewarding to live well and not give into sin, or not even be swayed by temptation. It’s nourishment to the soul to encounter the opportunity to be tempted yet recognize it for what it is and what it will produce in your life.
It’s incredibly satisfying to see it coming and choose grace ahead of time and walk away
We are to live in the newness of the spirit, but how? It is possible because Jesus died for us, and in him we died to sin and the law. But how do we walk in that victory? Through mind renewal.
The Good news that you are no longer obligated to God through law is good enough news to your heart that you’ll naturally obey him by faith. But no one has been able to do so, so something needed to change. God decided to perform a surgery, and make you a new kind of creature. He decided to cut out of you your diseased nature. He didn’t just cut out the disease, he replaced it with new living tissue, with eternal life flowing through it.
Your body still remembers what it’s like to be dead and enslaved to sin but if you can renew your mind to the new work that God has done in you, you will actually be a slave to righteousness, and obey God by faith from the heart. You can live under grace, in the power of righteousness!!
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MESSAGE TITLES
Yield to God as an Instrument of Righteousness
Your Soul Thirsts for Righteousness
Jesus Went Through Hell
Circumcision of the Heart
Live in Your New Life
Jesus said he was going to prepare a place for us so we can be with him. I think it’s safe to call that place Heaven, would you agree? What is that place like? What is Heaven like? Take a minute and think about that for a minute before you finish reading this article.
For real, think about Heaven, where Jesus is walking around right now…
I’m a pastor, so teaching doctrine properly is important, but I want to suspend doctrine for a minute and just think about some things.
When I think about Jesus preparing a place for us, it makes me think of his prayer “your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” It’s something he wants for us. I think about what the garden of Eden must have been like, in all its perfection. I think of what it would have been like to see Jesus transform and openly talk with Moses and Elijah. It makes me think of all the times supernatural encounters with angels and the presence of God happened to ordinary men and women in the Bible.