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The old man of sin (the real man, the spirit) has already been crucified with the result that sin in the body can be overthrown. We need not sin or serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live [...]
A few years ago during my prayer time, the Lord dealt with me about resurrection. It means “rising from the dead or coming back to life; coming back into notice, practice, use, a restoration or revival; the state of having risen from the dead.” There is coming a resurrection of our physical bodies—at the time [...]
We cannot walk in newness of life by giving ourselves a set of rules and regulations. We do not walk in newness of life just by telling the Church, “Don’t do this. Don’t do that.” We walk in newness of life by the Holy Spirit as He teaches us how to walk in God’s way. [...]
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism [...]
That means we stretch forward to the things in front of us. We bear down on the goal. Paul was so intensely focused on pursuing the prize of his call in Christ that he would not allow himself to look anywhere but toward the goal. He ran, “forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching [...]
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