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Romans 6:5 KJVS
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Paul continues to drive in the fact he has already stated about our identification with Christ death and thereby identifying with everything He is, He did and He has.
This vs 5 confirms what we talked about yesterday(vs 4) about being buried with him and being raised up with newness of life.
Romans 6:5 KJVS
For if we have been PLANTED together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
It says we have been(already done) planted(united together) in his death, and therefore we shall automatically be made united again in his resurrection. Which means, the way our self was identified with Christ in which he became that old self of sin and took the punishment and dispatch it away forever, that same way we became what HE became after RESURRECTION.
The point I will like to emphasize here is that all this are ours through faith( believing in the gospel)
We were the one with the image of sin and that made you and I to die,
Colossians 2:13 NLT
YOU WERE DEAD BECAUSE OF YOUR SINS AND BECAUSE YOUR SINFUL NATURE was not yet cut away. THEN GOD MADE YOU ALIVE WITH CHRIST, for he FORGAVE ALL our sins.
we were dead but God made us alive with and in Christ..
So, you can see we died, but it was God that made us alive, that quickened us!
You were not made alive by morality or your works or your righteousness.
Because it is filthy rag to the Lord!
Isaiah 64:6 KJVS
But we are all as an unclean thing , and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
It was God that raised us up! Nothing of man was there!!
See this..
Ephesians 2:1 NLT
Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.
Dead here means SEPARATION, from God! That was the death Adam experienced first!
So, since we are dead, a dead man can't WORK!
He can't do anything by himself. So, we clearly see that salvation is nothing of man's effort but God's effort! God's ability!
All our dead being did was to ACCEPT life through The Gospel by faith!
How can a dead man have faith!
The exact moment the gospel is preached! Faith is born in you to accept and believe it!
Romans 10:17 NLT
So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.
So, only the gospel saves! Because only it can birth faith in us for us to believe the Gospel!
So, we were raised to life, to a new nature not by works but by Grace through faith.
Now that we are alive freely by faith without any works! _You and I can now work not to be made alive again because we are already alive_
But we will work because we are now alive forever more and we need to shine the light to men around us!
So, the good works are not for us to be made alive or right with God because Christ already made us right and alive to God. instead, the good works are fruits of being alive!
That's why Paul said, we are born unto it and not by it!
Ephesians 2:10 KJVS
For we are his workmanship, CREATED(already) in Christ Jesus UNTO good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Good morning beloved.
Happy weekend.
Bro. Olayemi Adeyemi
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