Consider baptism precious (Rom 6:3-4)
Just as people believe in Jesus or God directly without any procedure, method, or process, they try to do love according to their own will, but it doesn't work.
The reason why you can't love is not because you don't have the motivation to love.
It is because they do not keep the commandment that they become one with the Lord.
It is because they do not keep the commandment that they become one with the Lord.
The reason why they do not become one with the Lord is that the Spirit of truth is not present
And the reason that the Spirit of truth is not present is because baptism is not the baptism of the Holy Spirit in the name of Christ.
In the end, it's a matter of faith.
Q. What is the meaning of baptism?
“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?” (Romans 6:3)
A. Many scholars say that baptism has the meaning of consecration and dedication.
Baptism means more than a religious ceremony and a token of forgiveness of sins.
It is a rite of consecration and dedication of oneself to Jesus Christ to become his servant.
That is why it is said that being united with Jesus Christ is true baptism.
Baptism is the giving of oneself to Jesus Christ.
Baptism is the ceremony of offering oneself to Jesus Christ.
A question.
Have you given yourself over to Jesus Christ?
However, I handed myself over, but there are many times when I find myself again and lead myself to my will.
So check baptism and resurrection every day.
Otherwise, you will continue to be dragged along by the life of the flesh.
In that sense, the hymn "I will soon come before the Lord with a repentant heart" has great meaning.
It is because it is a confession to return to the place where you were baptized.
Later, if you go to Romans chapters 7 and 8, you will understand, but a man of the flesh can never achieve love.
Unless he learns the principles of baptism and resurrection, he can be kind to people, be generous with them, but he cannot show God's true love.
If we do not experience the reality of baptism and resurrection, if our identity does not change, if we do not change our composition, if we do not change our nature, then we will never be able to love.
No, the flesh has no ability to love.
Adam's nature is the nature of a servant of sin, so it is the nature of hating and killing others.
He only comes close and clings to people when it is for his own benefit.
The nature you are born with is absolutely incapable of loving others.
The fact that people grow close to each other is proof that they have a common enemy.
Even in the church, if two or three people who are not normally close to each other become close friends, it can be said that they have enemies.
That is what human beings living in the flesh look like.
All education in today's world is intellectual education.
The reason why people cannot accept the Gospel as it is is because they are educated in the world's intelligence.
I'm sorry, but it's very difficult for teachers to receive the Holy Spirit.
That's because of pedagogy.
They don't know the dimension beyond reason.
But God's education is not intellectual education.
It is the nature in Christ and the education of the nature.
What is resurrection and life? live again, and live forever.
I do not live, but Christ lives in me.
This means that a new nature has come into me.
Our bodies are also given by God, and the life supplied by the Spirit of Christ within us is also given by God through Christ.
Our flesh is also given by God, and the life supplied by the Spirit of Christ within us is also given by God through Christ.
So some people say that this is the second destiny.
It is a born-again life, and it means the second life.
That's a very funny saying.
“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” (Romans 6:4)
The Holy Spirit in us is our new nature.
It is the attribute of God that is supplied through the Lord Jesus Christ.
The attribute we can have forever is love.
That's why they say that love is a passport to heaven.
Among God's many attributes, we can have the attribute of love forever.
You can have this love forever with his glory.
Being baptized into his death and being buried with him means that we died with Christ and lived with Christ.
If we say that suffering and the death of Jesus Christ on the cross belong to Jesus and only his resurrection is mine, who will bear the loss?
It's us.
It sounds very gracious to say that Jesus bears all suffering and that we only participate in his grace, but in fact, since our past is not cleared up, the resurrection life of Christ does not appear in us.
We must clear up our past in Adam so that the power of life in resurrection can be revealed to us.
Just as you receive an inoculation, you receive the dying germs through an injection and overcome them, so as to increase your immunity to the disease, Christ suffered from all mortal diseases, and we are to experience his sufferings through baptism and communion only by participating in him.
We are saying that we can't even do that.
Christ suffered the great torment of hell, and our suffering to share in his death is to kill our ego and greed, that is, to give up ourselves.
Then the glory of Christ's resurrection will come in me.
Therefore, a born-again Christian must always delivered himself up to Christ's death.
Just like holding a spoon into ready made rice, our existence itself is already in Christ, but we are responsible for departing from the old self who was in Adam and being with the Lord.
If you try to participate in the resurrection of Christ with attachment to the old self, the power and glory of that resurrection will not appear in you.
So, Peter said, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." (Acts 2:38)
Baptism must be properly received.
Accept the fact that God has already put an end to the old man in Christ through Jesus Christ.
Then, he says that he will give us the Holy Spirit as a gift.
Our reason or intellect think that among the things that should be thrown away in us, we must keep something and do not let go of them.
If the cross of Jesus Christ is the Lord's, and you only ask for his resurrection, you will loss.
Therefore bury me forever in the sufferings of the Lord and in his death.
If I bury myself in the death and resurrection of the cross of the Lord, the ugly and useless me will disappear, and the really good Christ will work in me.
If I bury me in the death and resurrection of the cross of the Lord, the ugly and useless me will disappear, and the really good Christ will work in me.
It means that the spirit and life of the Lord, the blessing of salvation, always arises within us.
Here, the word 'walk in' means that we are lived by his life.
It means to make us live in new life.
That's why we sing 'I will live long, I will live long, I will live long beside the stream of life'.
Eternal life is not connecting to the eternal world after we die, but living forever from the moment we accept the gospel.
Do you believe in this fact?
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
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