WALKING IN THE NEWNESS OF LIFE!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

FRIDAY JUNE 25, 2021.

SUBJECT : WALKING IN THE NEWNESS OF LIFE!

Memory verse: "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 the newness of life.” (Romans 6 vs 4.) 

READ: Colossians 3 vs 1 - 4:

3:1: If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.

3:2: Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

3:3: For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

3:4: When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

INTIMATION:

God planned that Christians should walk in the fullness of the divine life; that we should dare to take our positions as sons and daughters of God; and that hour is coming before the Lord's return in which members of the body will rise and walk before God the Father in newness of the New Creation Life.

In the New Creation life, Christians will be masters of this world, just as Jesus Christ and our Father are the Masters of this world. Any form of hindrance is destroyed. Disease will not be able to lay hold upon them. Ignorance and fear will be banished, because the wisdom that comes from above, that is in Jesus, will lead them into the full dream, ambitions and purposes of our Father. 

Christians have been translated out of the realm of darkness; that is, the kingdom of weakness, darkness, and ignorance. They have been translated into the kingdom of the Son of His Love, which is the realm of wealth, of life, of joy, of light, of peace, and of faith. They are one with Christ and our lives hidden with Christ in God. To walk in the newness of life is expressed thus:

“That you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.” (Colossians 1 vs 10 - 13.)

The apostle Paul, in the passage above, lists five benefits God gives all believers through Christ: (1) God has enabled us to share in Christ’s inheritance; (2) He has rescued us from Satan’s kingdom of darkness and made us His children; (3) He has brought us into His eternal kingdom; (4) He has purchased our freedom from sin and judgement with His blood; (5) He has forgiven us our sins. 

Sharing in Christ’s inheritance, the Scripture says; “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (Second Corinthians 5 vs 21). As believers, we trust in Christ’s substitutionary work for us, we make an exchange. He takes our sin and makes us right with God. Our sin was laid on Christ at His crucifixion. His righteousness is given to us at our conversion. 

By His Sacrificial death on the cross He rescued us from Satan’s kingdom of darkness, and He has brought us to His eternal kingdom, Through Jesus’ sacrifice, God has brought us into His family. We are God’s children, and joint heirs along with Jesus.

Jesus purchased our freedom from sin and judgement. Our sins are forgiven, It is of God’s grace that we are in Christ Jesus, “Who has become for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption" (First Corinthians 1 vs 30). Therefore, the limits of our wisdom, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, are the limits of Jesus, Jesus is also our life, and the limits of that life are the limits of the Life of the Son of God. But because He is limitless, we are also limitless.

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You immensely for the inheritance you have given us Christ Jesus. Engrace me to walk in the newness of life in Christ, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!