Psalm 139: 13-14
October 25, 2024
TODAY’S GOSPEL READING – 25 OCTOBER
October 25, 2024
THE 25th OF OCTOBER
IN JESUS WE DIED TO SIN, TO LIVE FOR GOD
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? – Romans 6:1-3
We cannot continue to live in sin, loving it more than we love Jesus and be right with Him at the same time. God’s Word is the truth, and it says that once we asked Jesus to become our Lord, we died to sin. When we are sincere and truly want to stop sinning, the Lord helps us to change and live a better life. In the Bible we can find the truth about everything we struggle with and by repeating the truth of God’s Word, we can demolish the strongholds that sin or traumas build up in our minds to keep us in bondage, and we can replace them with God’s truth.
It would be helpful for all of us to ask ourselves if we are truly born again and we are truly dead to sin. As long as we live in these bodies we have a carnal nature, but if we are truly born again, our godly spirits should be ruling over the sinful nature.
Jesus died for real on the cross, and His death is the only payment that our Heavenly Father accepts for the sins of all people. The baptism “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19b), is the baptism into Jesus’ death, through which the Lord canceled the reign of sin over our lives and resurrected us into the true freedom found in our new life in Christ Jesus.
SUGGESTED PRAYER
Thank You Father God for Your grace! Please help me daily to be truly dead to sin and to live only to please You. Please search my heart and show me anything I need to change or renounce, and help me do it. Please fill me with Your Holy Spirit so that I may abide in Jesus and do everything for Your glory. In the Name of Jesus I pray. Amen.
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