Romans 6 is Your Fix

I invited him to allow us to send him the cross books. He agreed. All 3 cross books were just now ordered and are on their way to our brother. Please pause to whisper a prayer for Avery to be consumed by the cross of Christ.

Amen Jesus!

Attempting to get better or to reform self, will only prolong the sin and misery. There is NO reforming the old man. It must be crucified. And, when it is, the LORD raises the new man and victory transpires.

Here’s a passage I’d like to encourage you to become intimately, prayerfully familiar with as you camp out and become enmeshed in the cross of Christ:

“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.” 2 Corinthians 4:10-12

Having trouble in the flesh? Decide today to obey the One who died to buy you back from sin, Satan, and sure damnation. Follow Christ who said in Gethsemane “not my will, but thine, be done.” (Luke 22:42)

“Ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3

Having trouble crucifying the deeds of the body? Read, pore over, memorize, meditate upon, and apply this:

Romans 6

“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members asinstruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God iseternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:1-23 (KJV)

Pore over this passage every day for the next week and watch the LORD work in your life. Be willing to lay it all down friend. Die to self. Memorize Colossians 3:3. Then, as you lay down your life unto the LORD, He is going to reciprocate by immediately raising you upward. Cling to the cross and tomb – die in identifying with Jesus in His death and burial. As you do, the divine, resurrection power of the Holy Ghost is going to raise your life upward. The only way up is first down in God’s kingdom. So “take root downward” beloved. It’s a Gospel essential.

“And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.” Isaiah 37:31 (KJV)

If you want to “escape” sin and eternal damnation and abide in rich fellowship with Christ, “take root downward”  and you shall “bear fruit upward.”

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