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6-23-2019 Weekly Message

Meditations on this week: Psalm 44: 1-26

Text: Romans 8: 1-13

The Title of the Bible: The blessing of those who are free from the law of sin and death, and dwell in the law of the Spirit of life

          Everyone is living on Earth is living in the law of the country to which they belong. But until the law of God was proclaimed in the world, and  until the gospel of Christ was proclaimed in the world, all the inhabitants of all the nations of the world were bound to live in the law of sin and death, as well as the laws of the nations in which they live. In other words, not only by the death of the flesh because of the transgression of the law, but because of sin, their soul were forced to live in eternity  in hell and the lake of fire.

          But since God so loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten Son in the form of the body of man, and he died on the cross for the sin of the world transferring in his body to take away the sin of the law, and buried and rose again, and thereafter  God sent the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus, The kingdom of God, the so-called spiritual world, is established by the law of the Spirit of Life in the earth. Since then, there have been two different kinds of  realm in the earth. In other word, whosoever believes in Jesus Christ is freed from the law of sin and death to the law of the Spirit of life. Through Apostle Paul, the Holy Spirit specifically witnessed of the children of God  who entered the law of the Spirit of life out of the law of  sin and death:

           Christians who are saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ are already dead for sin, and spiritually already baptized into the body of Jesus Christ and not only died with Him and buried with Him when Jesus died, (Romans 6: 3-5). When he was raised from death, we are spiritually resurrected together with him.

           Apostle Paul also testified of  this fact to the saints of the Church of Ephesus:

”   And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: “(Ephesians 2: 1-6)

             The death or life that God speaks of is not a word of corrupted body of man, but a spiritual word. Those who live in the law of death  living according to the course of the world following the lust of flesh are living in flesh, but in fact, they are spiritually dead in the hand of the  devil who has the power of death. But even though the body is dead, those who have already believed in Jesus Christ and entered into Christ are spiritually living eternally. Also, the children of God, who are born in the world through the Holy Spirit, can not be prevailed by the law of sin and death in the world. Though they may sin in the flesh and die in the flesh, but they are already living in the law of the Spirit of life, the flesh may sin and receive the price, but the saved soul and spirit are not subject to the laws of sin and death.

         The Apostle Paul testified of this truth:

” He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. “(Romans 8: 32-34).

           Jesus Christ, who died for the sins of all laws, liberated all those who believed in Him from the law of sin and death, after Jesus resurrected , he led them to the law of the Spirit of life, and made the righteousness of the law unto all who believed in Him Their salvation shall not be revoked guaranteed  forever as Apostle Paul testified :

” Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. “(Romans 8: 35-39).

           However, those who are saved and freed from the law of sin and death, living in the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, are not condemned when they follow the Holy Spirit, but will be condemned when they follow the flesh. Here, the word “condemnation” is not condemnation to hell, but the feeling of  guiltiness. So when the children of God who live in the law of the Spirit of life commit sin with the body, the Father chastens them to correct them:

” For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?? “(Hebrews 12: 3-9)

          We have to meditate  deeply for the purpose of God’s liberation for his children from the law of sin and death, leading them to the law of the Spirit of life. Of this  Apostle Paul testified:

” For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. “(Romans 8: 29-30)

        Therefore, the children of God have to live a life that does not follow the flesh but follow the Holy Spirit. Those who follow the flesh think of the works of the flesh, and those who follow the Spirit think of the work of the Holy Spirit.

         Therefore, always thinking through the Word of God through the work of the Holy Spirit, then living in harmony with the image of Christ, being heirs of God, being joint heirs with Christ, suffering in the present world, they shall be glorified by the Lord as much they suffered with Christ. The suffering we receive cannot be compared with the glory that shall be revealed to us. Whenever we suffer, we must look at all the creation groaning looking at  us and looking to the glory that shall come for us as we are groaning with them,   (Romans 8: 16-25). Amen! Hallelujah!