That Part of Life Most People Breeze By, and Never Get It Until it’s Too Late
The Lord’s death, burial, and resurrection is what we acknowledge before receiving the new birth experience. We become Christians based on the fact Jesus died for our sins, and was raised from the dead for our justification, (to be right with God). As we are united with Him in a death like His we become united with Him in a resurrection like his. Our dying is to our flesh (our body’s appetites). The unruly emotions, and inordinate desires must be kept under control. In order to keep this fallen demonic behavior under control in our lives we must die to self. The life we now live, we live by faith in the Son of God who loved us and gave Himself for us (Galatians 2:20). Our resurrection is having been dead to God spiritually, and then being raised to a new creature in Christ Jesus (during this process of changing you spiritually, you may not feel anything). This puts us in right standing with God, positioned for heaven after our physical death. The life we should be living now after our rebirth should be a life of faith. It’s a whole new way of thinking and behaving in general. Our intentions our motives, and our thought processing should all be influenced by the word of God. We must learn how to live this new life. The enemy will fight us on this until we give up, so never give up! You can do all things through Christ (Philippians 4:13), so draw on His strength and be sensitive to His ability working in your life. We have been raised to a whole new level in life, if we act on what’s been given.