Daily Bread - APR/06/07
Colossians 3:1 - If you then be risen together with Christ seek those things that are above where Christ is seated on the right hand of God.
All those who have accepted Jesus as their savior and thereby received the miracle of the new birth have a statement of faith that was outlined for us by the Apostle Paul: "I am crucified together with Christ; I am buried together with Him by baptism into His death; I am raised up together with Him; I am alive together with Him, and I am seated together with Him in the heavenlies" (Crucified: Romans 6:6, 8; Galatians 2:20; Buried: Colossians 2:12; 3:3; Romans 6:4; Galatians 3:27; Raised: Ephesians 2:6; Romans 6:4; Colossians 2:12; 3:1; Alive: Ephesians 2:1, 5; Romans 6:11, 13; Colossians 2:13 Seated: Ephesians 2:6).
The miracle of the new birth transcends all time insomuch that even though Jesus was crucified, buried, arose from the dead, and ascended into heaven 1977 years ago we are participants today. Being raised up together with Christ does not speak of a process that changes us but a radical transformation that takes place in the instant of the new birth. If we are going to participate in the process of maturation in Christ then we must turn all of our affections toward the realm of the Kingdom of God and gaze upon the Author and Finisher of our faith, Christ Jesus.
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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