Thursday, January 12, 2012

Romans 6:3-4


3 Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
    
4 We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life.
The word baptized means to be made one with. So the Truth is that we have been made one with Jesus’ death. Everything that happened to Jesus by dying has now happened to us. And everything that happened to Jesus by being resurrected from the dead has now happened to us. 
I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one: John 17:22
Everything that Jesus is, we are now one with. Jesus gave us His glory, so that we may be one with our Father as He is One with our Father. Think about what we have in Christ. We actually have the very glory of Jesus! We have His mind, His victory, His love, His grace, His Spirit, His abilities, and His relationship with God. We are now one with it all. 
In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world. 1 John 4:17
As Jesus is, so are we, even while we are in this world, Amen!

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