“I am
crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet, not I but Christ lives in me.
And the life that I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me
and gave Himself up for me.” – Galatians 2:20
Supernatural living in a natural world. That is what we are born again into, a supernatural life. Does that statement seem strange when you read it? Excessive?
“Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.” – 2 Corinthians 5:16-18
The supernatural life – our new life – is one that is totally dependent upon the One who saved us. For most of us, the events that we face in life are not any different from any of the people around us who are living natural – unspiritual lives. We face the same things. We do many of the same things. We work in the same places. We suffer through the same tragedies of life. But that is where the similarity ends and the difference begins. The difference between the natural and the supernatural, the Spirit of God. You, Christian, have at your disposal the power of the Almighty. You do not have to face this life alone. You have the power to stand when others fall. You can endure life with confidence when others wither under the pressures that this mortal life brings. And why can we be so confident?
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:31-39
That’s why !
Supernatural living in a natural world. That is what we are born again into, a supernatural life. Does that statement seem strange when you read it? Excessive?
“Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.” – 2 Corinthians 5:16-18
The supernatural life – our new life – is one that is totally dependent upon the One who saved us. For most of us, the events that we face in life are not any different from any of the people around us who are living natural – unspiritual lives. We face the same things. We do many of the same things. We work in the same places. We suffer through the same tragedies of life. But that is where the similarity ends and the difference begins. The difference between the natural and the supernatural, the Spirit of God. You, Christian, have at your disposal the power of the Almighty. You do not have to face this life alone. You have the power to stand when others fall. You can endure life with confidence when others wither under the pressures that this mortal life brings. And why can we be so confident?
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:31-39
That’s why !
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