The Reality of Abundant Living
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Our New Identity: We are Christ’s (3)
Our New Identity: We are Christ’s (3)
When we repent of our sins and accept Christ as our Savior, Jesus becomes the Lord of our lives.
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Christ died to reclaim the rightful Lordship over those whom he saves through faith in him.
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
We become his:
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Our New Reality: We are Reborn (4)
Our New Reality: We are Reborn (4)
We will dig deeper into this theme next week, but Paul makes clear that when we are saved we in essence die with Christ.
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
The call of salvation is a call to die so that our real life can begin.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
So baptism is a picture of our new reality:
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 faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
“My baptism signifies my identification with Jesus’ death on the cross, and that I am mystically crucified with Christ. I identify with that act; I put my personal trust in the act of Christ on the cross, and as Christ was taken down from the cross and buried in the ground, so I, in terms of my old nature, am put to death and buried.”
R. C. Sproul
Our New Hope: The Promise of Heaven
Our New Hope: The Promise of Heaven
Finally Paul notes that our baptism points to the hope we have in our future in Christ.
Because of Christ’s resurrection I have hope in the promise of my resurrection.
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
When we are baptized we are proclaiming the truth of Christ’s salvation but also our glorification in Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Today Kay proclaimed her new identity, her new reality and her new hope, and you can too.