Jesus Christ is the resurrection!


Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Romans 6:3

At face value it shows we were baptized into Jesus Christ's death.

Now when we read on we see what Jesus Christ died to!

For in that he died, he died UNTO sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Romans 6:10

So Jesus Christ died UNTO sin ..... His death was TO sin NOT a death BECAUSE of sin.

So now according to Romans 6:3 this is the death into which we have been baptized!

Now Paul was living on planet earth when he said, "I have been crucified with Christ." Galatians 2:20

So this crucifixion Paul was talking about was NOT his physical body, but about the body of sin!

So our crucifixion (baptism) with Christ lies in our identity with Christ in His death to sin. Our death to sin frees us from the lordship of the law of sin and death.

Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.

Therefore, my brethren, you also have become DEAD to the law THROUGH the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. Romans 7:1-4

Being born again is having our first husband pass away ..... Adam ..... FLESH!

Now that we are free from Adam/Flesh through the body of Christ we are now married to another!

How BY FAITH we need to identify with Christ's death to sin, so His resurrection life becomes visible in us.

Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:11

Baptism in water symbolizes the burial of our self-life with all its worldly ambitions, hopes and dreams. It is a celebration of what has happened to us in our union with Christ. Our immersion into water symbolizes the burial of our Adamic/fleshy nature.

Rising out of the water symbolizes our new life in union with Christ. We now walk in the newness of that life! Faith makes the symbolic meaning of baptism a reality, and we celebrate that reality.

Jesus Christ took the old humanity, the old Adam man through whom sin entered the world, with Him in His death. To glory in the cross is to see it symbolizes death to our Adamic/fleshy nature.

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4

Lets look at this in the light of His Truth, God included our body of sin (the Adam man) in the death of the Lord Jesus Christ! When He died, we died; when He arose, we arose; when He ascended, we ascended; when He was seated in the heavenlies, we were seated with Him!

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. Hebrews 12:28

We have become so accustomed to walking in the death of Adam that we cannot see any way out of it. But death has NO life and can NEVER receive life; we can only be resurrected OUT OF death.

After we die to the LIES/spirits that have been operating in us, we come into the life of Christ.

“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall MAKE you free.” John 8:32

In Christ we receive newness of life, and this results in a NEW consciousness of being and standing with God.

Let me say that them NOT walking in faith and newness of mind still retain their old mindset - the old consciousness of being that is in Adam. Instead of walking in their new life, they try to improve the old life by remodeling or reconstructing it.

They submit to religious doctrines, creeds, laws and traditions to justify their faithlessness their sinfulness.

A renewed mind walks in faith to the Word of God and knows "For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection." Romans 6:5 NASV

The death into which we have been united with is His death to sin.

Our baptism in water symbolizes a spiritual truth. It is symbolic of our union with Christ in His death to sin and His resurrection into life.

Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard THIS, they were pricked in their heart, .... Act 2:36, 37

A new way was to come and to enjoy it they needed to be buried by baptism into Christ, to partake in His resurrection unto Life.

See the Israelite understood the government of the Law of Moses was removed by this man they crucified and Peter tells them they need to be buried in the watery grave of baptism, and they emerge or rose out of this death as a new creation by the power of God's word.

This marks the end of their old consciousness that was limited to the Law of Moses and rising out of this grave symbolizes their resurrection together with Christ into His life and the government of the Spirit. It is a testimony of what has happened to us spiritually, knowing that the natural is symbolic of a spiritual reality.

Recognizing that our water baptism is a symbolic baptism helps us to understand what Paul meant when he said, "There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, ONE baptism." Ephesians 4:4,5

We now know that baptism happens to us spiritually for their is nothing natural in Ephesians 4:4,5

We died together with Christ, we were buried together with Christ, and now we live together with Christ because He is the resurrection.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? John 11:25,26

Our identity with Christ has nothing to do with anything that we have done, but with everything that He has done! And the only way to come out of death is to be resurrected.

Jesus Christ is the resurrection!

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