Distinguish between the former me and present me

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Distinguish between the former me and the present me (Romans 6:19)

Paul's frustrating appeal to the Corinthian church is, "Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?" (1 Corinthians 15:12)

This is a word that desperately needs enlightenment even in the church of this age.

Most people acknowledge the faith if they only believe in the historical resurrection of Jesus.

The fact that Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose again is a historical fact known to all.

So we don't have to say 'I believe'.

If we check the records, we know that Jesus rose from the grave.

The important thing is when do you believe in the fact that you, who died in Adam, accepted Christ, who is the resurrection, as your Savior and became a resurrected person?

The important thing is whether I believe in the fact that I, who died in Adam, became a person who came back to life by receivinging Christ, the resurrection, as my Savior.

If there is no first resurrection to receive Christ and live again, there is no escape from the lake of fire, the second death where death goes.

There are churches that do not believe in their own resurrection and lean towards the real world like the Corinthian church.

Like the Galatian Church, they try to have the form of godliness in the flesh, but they lack the power of godliness, the cross of Christ, so they can start with the Holy Spirit and then do it in the flesh.

Q. Why is the boundary between the past and the present so important?

“I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh:   for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.” (Romans 6:19)

A. The basis of faith in Romans 5, which contains both the alpha and omega of salvation, is the word “Jesus was delivered for our sins and was raised again for our  justification.” (Romans 4:25)

And through baptism (baptism), we have been crucified with Christ and rise again with Christ, and through the salvation of the Lord's life in the Lord (Rom 5:10) we are in a place to see the glory of God (Rom 5:2).

Before we were born again, when we were outside of Christ, our members were always automatically prepared to give to uncleanness and iniquity.

Because I was a slave to sin, it was always iniquity to act according to my five senses and act on them.

The reason why God has mercy on those who fear him as a father has mercy on his children is because he knows our frame. (Psalm 103:13-14)

After Adam, all human beings automatically became dispositions to practice iniquity

These are the constitutions that are always ready to give to sin.

That is why the Lord throws away our sins as far as the east is from the west and leads us into the  his righteousness by the miraculous power of his death on the cross and his resurrection.

We have believed in it and followed it.

The condition is those who fear him.

Therefore, now, he is telling us to establish our belonging and qualifications by relying on the death and resurrection of Christ, and to present our members as servants of righteousness to reach holiness.

Mouth, eyes, hands, feet, everything.

It means to be in awe of the Word of God and have an attitude of obedience.

It is more important to have the will to want and follow the word to be fulfilled within me than saying that I have heard or know Romans.

This will is very important in fulfilling the Word.

The carnal mind is death, but the spiritual mind is life and peace (Romans 8:6).

The carnal mind is death, but the spiritual mind is life and peace (Romans 8:6).

Depending on where the inclination of your thoughts is, your thoughts will change.

This is a very important crossroads.

Therefore, the will is important.

Our will must hold our heart and our faith.

God guides us with love, and the devil throws bait in front of our ego and greed and leads us to sin.

But as long as we who are in Christ set our will straight, we can follow God as much as we like, and we can cast off our fleshly thoughts with the Spirit of life.

So, the Bible says that blessings and curses are set before me, and life and death are set before me.

Outside of Christ, our free will does not work.

It is because you have become completely a slave to sin.

It's just the mind, but the result is not.

But in Christ, we have the right of God's children to choose because we have been freed by the law of the Spirit of life.

When Eve was thought whether to eat the tree of life or the knowledge of good and evil, the moment she heard the words of the serpent rather than God's words, the tree of good and evil seemed better to her.

Hearing this, she became a servant of the serpent and chose death.

As a result, he became a slave to sin. He also became a servant of death.

Being in the grace of God by freeing us from the bondage of sin through the Lord's death and resurrection is to give us a chance to regain the will to take the tree of life.

This is the present grace of God in Christ.

When we obey God's righteousness with our free will, we become holy.

The important thing is whether we were united with the death of Christ, and our old self was buried with the Lord, united in the Lord's resurrection, and lived again.

If you are united with the Lord, God will lead you to the end.

It is the ultimate zeal of God.

He gives us the opportunity of salvation that we can choose with our free will.

That choice is ours.

When we make choices, God gives us rewards of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit, so it is God's work that the more we experience the  reward, the more our heart toward God grows.

But the choice is always mine.

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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