HIS LIFE FOR OUR DEATH

When by faith we receive Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior,
We are washed in His blood and forgiven of our sins.
Our new life required His death and the shedding of His blood.
The Bible teaches that without the shedding of blood
There is no forgiveness of sins.

We too must die to sin and to this world and its ways,
Which are under the control of Satan.
Our agreement with God to die to sin is symbolized by water baptism,
A commanded ordinance of Christ Jesus.
We go under the waters of baptism symbolizing our death to sin
And to this world and its ways.
When we do this we are promising to live for Christ,
By the power of His Spirit living inside us.


The truth is that unless we die to sin,
This world and it’s ways, we do not belong to Christ,
No matter what confession of faith we have made.
Our confession of faith must be proven by our heart set,
Mind set and our actions.
The Father has made it possible for us to do this
By the power of His Holy Spirit living within us.

Greater is he that is in you than he that is in this world. (1 John 4:4)

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13)

The apostle Paul says:
'What shall we say, then?
Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus
Were baptized into his death?
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death
In order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead
Through the glory of the Father,
We too may live a new life.

If we have been united with him in his death
We will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.
For we know that our old self was crucified with him
So that the body of sin might be rendered powerless,
That we should not longer be slaves to sin--
Because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead,
He cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
The death he died, he died to sin once for all;
But the life he lives, he lives to God.
In the same way count your selves dead to sin
But alive to God in Christ Jesus. (Romans 6:1-11)


The apostle Paul says:
You have been set free from sin
And have become slaves to righteousness. (Romans 6:18)

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live,
But Christ lives in me. (Galatians 2:20)

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature
With its passions and desires. (Galatians 5:24)


Jesus said:
Enter through the narrow gate.
For wide is the gate and broad the road that leads to destruction,
And many enter through it.
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life,
And only a few find it. (Matthew 7:13-14)


Whoever finds his life will lose it,
And whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.' (Matthew 10:39)


The man who loves his life will lose it,
While the man who hates his life in this life will keep it for eternal life.
(John 12:25)


If anyone does not remain in me,
He is like a branch that is thrown away and withers;
Such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
(John 15:6)


Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father,
So the one who feeds on me will live because of me. (John 6:57)

The apostle John says:
The man who says, 'I know him,' but does not do what he commands
Is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (1 John 2:4)


Do not love the world or anything in the world.
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For everything in the world--
The cravings of sinful man the lust of the eyes
And the boasting of what he has and does comes not from the Father
But from the world.
The world and its desires pass away,
But the man who does the will of God lives forever. (1 John 2:15-17)


No one who is born of God will continue to sin,
Because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning,
Because he has been born of God.
This is how we know who the children of God are
And who the children of the devil are:
Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God;
Neither is anyone who does not love his brother. (1 John 3:9-10)


Anyone who does not love remains in death. (1 John 3:14)


This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.
And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. (1 John 3:16)


We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin;
The one who was born of God keeps him safe,
And the evil one does not touch him.
We know that we are children of God,
And that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
(1 John 5:18-19)


The apostle Paul speaks of this death in yet a different way:
…A man is a Jew (a follower of Christ) if he is one inwardly;
And circumcision is circumcision of the heart by the Spirit,
Not by the written code. (Romans 2:29)


Again Paul says:
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
And you have been given fullness in Christ,
Who is the head over every power and authority.
In him you were also circumcised,
In the putting off of the sinful nature,
Not with a circumcision done by the hands of men
But with the circumcision done by Christ,
Having been buried with him in baptism
And raised with him through your faith in the power of God,
Who raised him from the dead. (Colossians 2:9-11)


It is all of Him, for all of me, or none of Him.


Here is a trustworthy saying:
If we died with him, we will also live with him;
If we endure, we will also reign with him.
If we disown him, he will also disown us;
If we are faithless, he will remain faithful,
For he cannot disown himself. (2 Timothy 11-13)


When I think about your love for me
That will last for all of eternity
How you came to me when I was down
You turned my whole live around
I’m undone, I’m undone


You take my hand so carefully
You speak to me so tenderly
With words that come right from your heart
You loved me from the very start
I’m undone, I’m undone

Such a love has never been known
Such a love has never been shown
I’m undone, I’m undone

You want to share your life with me
You want me to see the things you see
So you and I might become ONE
As we walk together into the Son
I’m undone, I’m undone


Such a love has never been known
Such a love has never been shown
I’m undone, I’m undone