his resurrection gave us eternal life
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life
John 3:16
Rhapsody of Realities Daily Devotional For Saturday 6th November 2021
There’re fundamental tenets of the Faith that every Christian must live by. For example, you must believe that God raised Jesus from the dead otherwise, you’re not a Christian. That’s because salvation was made available by the resurrection of Jesus. The death of Jesus paid for the sins of the world, but that was neither the end nor the purpose of Jesus’ death.
If you found a poor man who owed a lot of money and you paid his debt, that’ll be great, but not enough. Paying his debt made him a free man, but a “poor free man.” He’ll require something more to live on so he’d be out of poverty. In the same way, when Christ paid for the sins of the world by the shedding of His blood, we were free from the consequences of sin. Awesome! But it didn’t make us free from the nature and power of sin.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ gave us a new life and power over sin. It gave us a new life of righteousness. Hallelujah! Believing in the resurrection means you believe in His death too, because there’ll be no resurrection without the death.
The resurrection is what gave us eternal life. The Bible says in Romans 6:4, “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” His resurrection ushered us into the new life of righteousness and the glorious liberty of the sons of God. Hallelujah!
Confession
Dear Father, thank you for the vicarious death of Jesus, and His glorious resurrection that has made salvation possible for everyone who believes and declares the same. Now, I walk in righteousness, in the newness of life, walking in fellowship with God, by Christ Jesus. Amen.
Further Studies
John 11 25
25 - Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection and the Life! He who believes in Me, though he die, yet he shall live.
Romans 6 7-11
7 - For he who died has been justified from sin.
8 - But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9 - knowing that when Christ was raised from the dead, He dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him.
10 - For in that He died, He died to sin once; but in that He lives, He lives to God.
11 - Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Year Bible Reading Plan
Hebrews 5 11,Hebrews 6 1-20,Jeremiah 48 1,Jeremiah 49 1
2 Year Bible Reading Plan
John 10 11-21,1 Chronicles 6 1
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