We Are Dead
The
moment we are born in this world, we are born to something that is already
dead. Our bodies are rotting around us. But when we come to God, through Christ,
we die, and the Spirit brings our bodies back to life and lives in us.
That
is why the apostle Paul said, “It is not I who live but Christ in me.”
We
died!
But
then we were born again! Born not of the seed that dies but of the seed that
lives, of God’s seed. The Spirit reanimated our bodies, and we were brought
back… no no… brought to life for the very first time. Born of water and blood.
That is why the water baptism is so important.
Still,
I do not know if the water is as much, or more, Spiritual, like the blood,
because we do not pour blood over ourselves, or if it is intended to be
physical.
The
point remains that we died.
When
Jesus said, “He who finds his life will lose it, but he who loses his life for
my sake will find it.”
I
always took this to mean that in my day to day, as I gave up what I wanted and
submitted it to Christ, then He would give me real life. That is also true, but
this verse can also be seen literally. If we find our “life” on our own, we
ultimately will never know true life or real everlasting life, but we will know
everlasting death. But when we die “with Christ.” (2 Cor. 5:14), then we are
given life through the Holy Spirit.
Romans
8:11 says that the same Spirit that raised Jesus is also in us and is able and
does the same for us. But the process for us is so seamless that we don’t
notice the subtle change.
Like
if a surgery gives someone a new heart, and that person when the old heart is
removed for a time there is no heart, but it all happens so quickly that it
goes unnoticed by the patient who is under. When they wake they have a new heart
a working heart that will not let them down and kill them. But their body (the
flesh) can choose to reject that heart. It can target it as a foreign substance,
and if that person doesn’t take steps to get his body to agree with accepting
the new heart and beating in rhythm with it, then he will die or need yet a new
heart.
So
in conclusion, WE DIED! And then were reanimated by the Spirit who lives in us,
and we must now bring our flesh, our souls, and our bodies into agreement with
the new life within us.
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