06/11/2025
Good morning my dearly beloved brother and sister in Christ Jesus, our Lord and our life. In Christ you are loved, blessed, accepted, anointed, appointed, and charged to be Christ in this world.
Let us read the Word of God. We understand that the Bible alone is letters that are ink on paper, but the Spirit gives life to the Word and is powerful to break every chain and loose every stronghold, to set free the captives, to raise the dead, to give sight to the blind, make the lame to walk, heal the sick, give strength to the weak, to deliver and cast out.
The Gospel is the good news to every person, no matter their religion, nationality, race or sexual orientation. Yes, it is the hope of the world for all, from the good to the bad, the best to the worst, for we all have fallen short of the glory of God.
But, we are the Christ to the world, if they see us, they see Him, but only if we stay in love and not in judgement.
Let us read.
“Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.
And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain.
But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.
So also is the resurrection of the dead.
The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory.
It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.”
The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.”
I Corinthians 15:36-38, 42-45
Hallelujah!
We believe that one man’s sin lead to the death of all, and hence, one Man’s sacrifice - His death included all mankind.
And if He was raised, we were all raised in His resurrection.
His life has become our life because His death was our death.
We no longer live in the flesh but Christ lives in us - the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead is in us - the life of Christ.
That the scriptures will be true that “In Him we move and have our being”, and “As He is, so are we in this world“.
Brother and sister, we cannot die because we already died. We can only live - and we have life (His eternal life) more abundantly.
It stands to reason that what Paul is writing about is not for one day in the sweet bye and bye, but is the reality now.
The problem comes when we look at the scripture with our natural eyes, seeing physical things, and not spiritual truths.
Christ is raised and His body is no longer flesh and blood. We do not know Jesus that way but we know Him in the Spirit. His Spirit is in us.
We are the temple of God - not our flesh but our spiritual man. We carry, in us, the body of Jesus, the life of God, eternity.
Jesus said to Philip, If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father. Similarly, when you and I see one another, we see Christ in us. If we are still looking for Jesus, we have not come to knowing the truth and we are still under the Law.
May the grace of God set you up to be His witnesses, His disciples, His ministers, equipped by the Holy Spirit for the building up and equipping of the saints and be found in fervent love towards all our brothers and sisters.
Amen
