Rom.6:11 – Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. The revelation of God’s word by the Holy Spirit makes these precious spiritual truths a reality in our souls. Just as you saw that your past sins were dealt with at Calvary enabling you to be forgiven, …
ATTENDING YOUR OWN FUNERAL For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives. (Romans 6:4 NLT) When I was a child, I loved to read about the adventures of Tom Sawyer. …
Ps.46:1 – God is our refuge and strength, A very ready help in trouble. All of these promises and insights given in this Psalm are made available to us in Christ. He became our refuge and our help by the blood of the cross. We have obtained access to this help because we can now …
Gal.2:20 – I have been crucified with Christ. Jn.19:15 – But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. “Away with Him.” You can hear the disgust in the voices of the Jewish crowd demanding Pilate to crucify Jesus. He was abhorrent to them, just a look at this man was absolutely …
Phil.3:10 – that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death… I think the most influential person in the history of man (excluding Jesus Himself) would have to be the Apostle Paul. His revelation of Christ is being preached in thousands of …
MERRY MONDAY BY PARRIS I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. John 17:14 And there you have it, Jesus even said it. “The world hated them because they are not of the world”. Hate is …
WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN A NEW IDENTITY MERRY MONDAY BY PARRIS Gal 2:20 “I have been crucified WITH Christ” Most of us grow up self-conscious. People point out our speech patterns and try to locate where we are from. Classmates at school pick out any so called irregularities in us. I still remember one of …
DEAD MEN WALKING Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. Rom. 6:8 Nobody wants to die. Paul didn’t want to die; but die he did. The day he died started like most of the others. Paul was headed to Damascus and was determined to stop the growth …
Gal. 5:24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. To hear Paul say these words in his day had to be quite disturbing. All of his hearers had experienced the uncomfortable feeling of walking past a series of dead or dying men dying the death of …
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live Galatians 2:20 One of our greatest needs in life is to find our identity. Multitudes wander aimlessly through life covering their lack of purpose with facades or deaden their emptiness with the pleasures of sin. We cloak our emptiness in sports, pleasure seeking, politics, ambition, or some …
