Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead ( CORPSE) by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness ( kainotes) of life.
Rom 8: 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free ( has freed me) from the law of sin and death.
Happy New Year to everyone in blog land.
I am rushing to church and can only spend a few minutes in this entry.
I cannot do justice to the verses above in such short time. I suspect that in the days to come I will expound more since they are part of my present spiritual journey.
Let me just say this today as introduction.
The body of sin, or the sinful nature is inherent in every human being, because of the fall of Adam. In Romans five Paul tells us that this sinful nature is passed down to every human being.
This nature, is a sin producing engine. Thus people without Christ can do nothing but sin.
Secondly, the sin producing nature is a slave master. Not only does it generate sin but keeps folks in its clutches. This is because it operates by the law or the principle of sin and of death. Any law functions on the premise that specific circumstances will always produce specific results. The law of gravity tells us that if I lift an object to the air and release it, it will fall to the ground.
The law of sin and death, work with the sinful nature to generate sin.
Secondly, any effort to stop sinning will only generate more sin.
This is because the only way to get rid of the sinful nature and the law of sin and death is through death and not through attempting to get free from it.
A corpse has no sin and cannot sin because he has no life. Neither is the law of sin and death active, by reason that he is dead. A corpse has no law active within it , except the law of putrefaction.
The human body in itself is not sinful. It’s a wonderful creation of God. It harbors within it the seat of the sinful nature, which activates lusts and passions in the body, however.
When a person becomes born again, the sinful nature is killed with Christ on the cross. In theory the principle or law of sin and death has been put to death as well.
What happens is that any time that one attempt to obey Christ outside of the Spirit or tries to get rid of sinful habits through one’s own strength we activate the law of sin and death which is dormant in the Christian’s bodily members.
More later on this. I don’t have time now.
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead ( a corpse) by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness ( kainotes) of life.
Rom 8: 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free ( has freed me) from the law of sin and death.
If you are willing to pay the price of really experiencing what it is to be conformed or assume the form of the death of Christ, you will enter into what I will describe. It has taken me 33 years. I was really messed up when I came to the Lord. Also, I have been hard headed in some areas of obedience.
There comes a day in which you experience being a corpse with Christ, if you want Romans six.
This is the day where Christ brings you to point in which you are powerless to do anything.
This just occurred to me.
There comes a distinct moment in which there is a tangible transference from being governed by the law of sin and death to being governed by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
When you experience what it is to be a corpse with Christ in His tomb, the resurrection life of God which raised Him up, comes into your body.
There is a moment in which the principle of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus becomes your reality.
It’s at the moment of truly being a corpse that everything that has to do with you who were becomes dust in the wind. The corpse which you have become has effectively killed all, including your identity and memories of your past.
You will enter into the experience of Romans six and four.
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead ( a corpse) by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness ( kainotes) of life.
Kainotes, is a new life on the basis that it’s novel, unique and never experienced.
At this moment your identity is one who is raised out from corpse to be continuously alive to God by the principle of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. The corpse has killed your whole past, and the principle of death and sin. Out of your strengthlessness you find yourself with an identity which you never had and a new principle of living, mainly the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus functions as rivers of living waters from your spiritual belly.
Real fruition occurs here.
This is the basis to really be healed. It’s impossible for sickness to be fed from the roots by the law of the Spirit of life.
It will cost you all you have, but the results are so much greater.
Gotta run! Blessings
Jose and Mary Alvarez 