DAY TWENTY EIGHT | Till Death Do Us Part

May 28, 2009

WELCOME TO DAY TWENTY EIGHT | TILL DEATH US DO PART

2 CORINTHIANS. 5:17 – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Isn’t life strange? When we are born into life we are actually born into death. We are born to die and death is a bad thing. Yet when we identify with Christ at Calvary and we die to our old life, we are born again to live and now death is a good thing.

Now through death we are separated from our old life that is destined to die, and we are joined to Christ’s new life, which means we are now destined to live forever.

Confusing?

Not really. The key to it all is to find your life in Christ. He is our rock, our shelter, our defence, our wellspring of life, our mediator of a new covenant, our deliver from the curse etc. In Christ I am a new creation, born again to live with Him forever.

You can tell when someone begins a new life. The old dead things begin to drop away. Death has parted us from our old desires and actions. Our new life in Christ is beginning to produce new actions that grow new fruit.

This is not natural, it is supernatural.

It is the miracle of the new birth. Being born again means dying to our old life and receiving the seed of righteousness to live a brand new life in Christ!

Don’t fool yourself. If you are still living your old life then you have not experienced death on the cross with Christ, and therefore have not experienced the resurrection power of Christ to begin living a brand new life.

New life in Christ is as simple as the three R’s.

Repent of your old life of sin and turn away from sin.

Receive the miracle of a new life in Christ – by faith.

Reckon yourself to be a new person alive to God and dead to sin.

PRACTICAL

1. Identify the date that you turned to Christ and repented as a sinner.

2. Commit to living a clean life before God – by receiving daily forgiveness and cleansing.

3. Confess all day today that “I AM” the righteousness of God in Christ.