Comment: The
obvious is not always obvious, it is like not being able to see the forest
because the trees are in the way. Recently I was waiting for my turn at the local
DMV, each person ahead of me took about twenty minutes and I was number 4 in
line for counter number nine. Number two was called; okay now I had twenty
minutes more to wait, I began looking at my phone and immediately I heard my
number. At first, I was confused, I looked at all the counter windows except
#9, I looked at my number, then looked at the counter #9. The person at the
counter whom I know said, “hey Jesse did I catch you sleeping?” Romans 13:11 – And
do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for
now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. We looked at this verse of scripture
in context yesterday and I will add Proverbs 24:30-34. Spiritually speaking
most children of God live in poverty these days, sadly because they are spiritually
waiting and asleep.
Devotional: Romans 8:1-11 – There is therefore NOW no
condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Why does the apostle Paul make
this a present tense statement? Because of Romans chapter seven, which reveals
that Christ/Messiah has freed us from the LAW, sin takes advantage of those who
seek to keep the Law. The Law was not given to keep us from sinning; it was
given to show that we are SINNERS.
Christ/Messiah through His
Death and Resurrection has (present tense) set us free from the Law, replacing
the Law of Sin and Death which was weak because of our flesh with the Law of
the Spirit of Life in Christ/Messiah. For those who set their mind on the
flesh, these are carnally minded children of God, These seek to work out their
salvation by keeping the Law they cannot keep, but those whose mind is in
Christ/Messiah according to the Spirit, live according to the Law of the Spirit
of life in Christ/Messiah.
Of course, if you do not have
the Spirit of Christ, then you are not a child of God and your fleshly mind
cannot receive the gift of God in Christ. You then are still in the flesh, a
flesh which is DEAD to the Life offered to you by God. If Christ/Messiah
is in you, the body (your body) is DEAD because of sin, but the SPIRIT is (now)
LIFE in you because of Christ’s Righteousness is alive in you. Therefore, we are no
longer to walk in the flesh, but according to the Spirit. So WAKE UP and
Christ/Messiah will walk with you according to the Spirit who indwells us.
Do not believe that you are
next in line with God, you are ALWAYS called to presently walk in the Spirit, and you will not carry out the deeds of the flesh.
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