Three implications regarding the Resurrection

Three Implications Regarding the Implications

Please note that I did not email a Freedom Fighter yesterday. You can read yesterday's post directly from the Freedom Fighter blog: http://keswickfreedomfighters.blogspot.com/

Good morning, brothers ... here are three implications concerning the Christ's resurrection that you may have forgotten about. The implications are HUGE for you and your life in Christ:

1. You have been crucified WITH Christ and He lives IN you! -- "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives IN me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." -- Galatians 2:20

2. You are dead to sin and alive to God -- "What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like His (Galatians 2:20), we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection LIKE His. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died to sin, ONCE FOR ALL, but the life he lives he lives to God. So YOU must also consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to make you obey its passion. Do not present your members to sin as instruments fro unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have NO dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace." -- Romans 6:1-14

3. You not only have been crucified with Christ, you not only are dead to sin, you have been raised with Christ!

"If then you have been risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things on earth. For you have died, and YOUR life is hidden WITH CHRIST in God. When Christ who is YOUR life appears, then you will also appear with him in glory. -- Colossians 3:1-4

Brothers -- is this not amazing? I took this picture at my daughter-in-laws home in Maryland. I couldn't help but think about the verse above that says that "your life is hidden in Christ."

Take some time to meditate on these these bedrock implications regarding the resurrection of Jesus Christ. -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK

God's WORD for YOU: Proverbs 13; 1 Samuel 22-24; Luke 12:1-31

Great Quote: A Christ-centred worship - which is event-oriented worship - can never be static and merely intellectual because what happens is an actual and real communication of the power and benefit of the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. Worshiping churches recognize that every gathering of worship is ultimately a praise and thanksgiving for the overthrow of evil by God in Christ. This victory not only happened two thousand years ago, but it happens today in the lives of people who bring to worship their own struggles against that evil which shatters relationships, oppresses the poor, and brings constant dislocation into life.Robert Webber