My apologies for the irregular eDevs the last while - it has been a bit hectic and I have had a lot of internet connectivity problems...
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11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. Romans8:11
Resurrection is not just pie-in-the-sky one-day-when-you-die.
In Ephesians, Paul explains that we are spiritually dead when we live by our sinful nature. For as long as sin runs the show in our lives, we are in a process of dying that will continue to and through our physical death and result in separation from God - the final and ultimate stage of the dying process.
This process of death is terminal - we cannot stop it or reverse it on our own. The root cause is our sinful nature that is the cancer that leads to this death. We cannot change our sinful nature on our own.
God does two incredible things: Christ's death on the cross is like the surgery the removes the "tumours" of our sin. The Holy Spirit who comes to live in us is the "chemo" that deals with the "rogue cells" in our natures that cause the tumours of actual sin.
Death is a _process_ that is at work in us from they day we are conceived in our sinful world, and, if left unchecked, will continue into eternity. The Holy Spirit brings us to Christ so that we may receive forgiveness and enter into a life-giving relationship with Him
through the Holy Spirit's work in our lives.
Resurrection is not just pie-in-the-sky one-day-when-you-die, it is the daily transformation from within that is initiated, empowered and effected by the Holy Spirit. His power at work in us will ensure that death has no hold over us physically or spiritually.
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Theo Groeneveld theo@emmanuel.org.za
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