To Live Is To Die

No Death, No LIFE!

The only LIFE there is here on earth is to be found in Christ Jesus.

As He is the only LIFE that exists.

And the only way one can find this LIFE is to Die to self

And be filled with His Spirit.

Here on earth, everyone is spiritually dead while they live naturally;

Without Christ, they are only waiting until natural death brings Eternal Death.

Here is a trustworthy saying:

If we died with Him [Christ Jesus]

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 2:11)

What shall we say, them?

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 no longer be SLAVES TO 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 yourselves Dead to SIN

But ALIVE to God IN Christ Jesus.

Therefore do not let SIN reign in your mortal body

So that you OBEY its EVIL DESIRES.

Do not offer the parts of your body to SIN,

As instruments of WICKEDNESS,

But rather offer yourselves to God,

As those who have been brought from Death to LIFE;

And offer the parts of your body to Him as instruments of RIGHTEOUSNESS.

For SIN shall not be your MASTER,

Because you are not under the Law, but under Grace.

What then?

Shall we SIN because we are not under Law but under Grace?

By no means!

Don't you know that when you offer yourselves

To someone to OBEY him as SLAVES,

You are SLAVES to the one whom you OBEY--

Whether you are SLAVES TO SIN, which leads to Death,

Or OBEDIENCE, which leads to RIGHTEOUSNESS?

But thanks be to God that, though you used to be SLAVES to SIN,

You wholeheartedly OBEYED the form of teaching

To which you were entrusted.

You have been SET FREE from SIN

And have become SLAVES to RIGHTEOUSNESS.

I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves.

Just as you used to offer the parts of your body

In SLAVERY to IMPURITY and ever-increasing WICKEDNESS,

So now offer them in SLAVERY to RIGHTEOUSNESS leading to HOLINESS.

When you were SLAVES to SIN,

You were free from the control of RIGHTEOUSNESS.

What did you benefit from the things you are now ashamed of?

Those things result in Death!

But now that you have become SLAVES to God,

The benefit you reap leads to HOLINESS,

And the result is Eternal LIFE.

For the WAGES OF SIN is Death,

But the GIFT OF GOD is Eternal LIFE in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(Romans 6)

I pray that those who read this message are Dead to SIN

And ALIVE to God IN Christ Jesus.

Today, the world is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)

America is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.

Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!

Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!