Romans 6. Being Dead to Death and Dying. To not have to deal with it anymore. This is the Gospel!
The whole purpose of The Christ of the Cross and the Gospel from the scripture, is to deal with death and dying and the fear of it. It is the innate formation of the carnal mind that is focused on self, dying and the preservation of the carnal self that is dead to the things of God. The life that they live now as they fortify their earthbound existence and to assay their carnal fears of loss of self, health, wealth and length of life to try to avoid at all costs the ultimate dying by desease or accident and ultimate death.
This happens only because their fear of dying is proof that they are already dead to the things of the living God who gifted to us the true life of righteousness by faith baring, peace and joy of the Holy Spirit that we experience aside from those fear curtailing mechanisms advertised to you, that try to direct people away from a new life experienced through His Son.
It was He who went to the cross “to deliver those who all their life was subject to the fear of death”. Because it is the fear of death that is your prison cell that keeps you from experiencing the carefree thinking and other provisions given to us from the Almighty God whose Son was splayed (displayed) at the cross, arms wide open saying “come unto Me and I will give you life. Not just any life, but Eternal life”. There is NO death here.
This is something hard to understand when what you see now is temporary and in a state of decay and decline, subject to the law of entropy. Just like a clock that has been wound needs to be rewound, but the earth has a time when it won’t. So we need to be sure to make a clear distinction between what is fact and what is-real, and what is not (Israel) in Gods economy. Because if you are found having too much stock in the temporal, you will likely get burned as you try to let go. (2 Peter 3.10)
For this reason there is an Exodus. As a matter of truth that is what the whole book of Exodus in scripture is all about our transfiguration to the other side of the fear of death.
It describes the blood of the lamb over your doorpost, a departure from the slavery and the angel of death passing over, to then go through water to be washed and renewed in Spirit to be freed to aquire the things the Father has of Himself, given for ourselves to become like His self. These are the Israel and what is-real to us from the Almighty God.
Those visuals were just given for us to learn to put them on in the spirit of our minds, to apply in our understanding during our carnal experience on earth. That is what the word godliness means, to put Him on, and also what it means to be “in Christ”. To be in Christ is to be in the Holy Land called Israel ( Exodus 4.-) Meaning in the provisions of God, outlined in His Will and Testament in force with the death of His Son.
The Son of God put on a temporary human body to show us the way. Then He offered Himself up to the cross His carnal existence as a payment in exchange for us. A life in exchange for His life. This was all done for the purpose to give you and His life, health, happiness, safety, security and retirement called “the Sabbath days rest as defined in Hebrews chapter 4. “for those who have entered their rest have ceased from their works like the Father did from His (Hebrews 4). That is what the Sabbath days rest is in reference to and this is the place we should be found by Him while we are still in human form.
If you accept the reality that Christ went to the cross to take on our death, to neutralize that effect, to give us “newness of life” restored to “that which is from the beginning before the fall with Adam and Eve who fled for coverage from another.
If you can understand that, you could then realize that IF we have to experience our own death after He took on our death sentence unto Himself, that would be either double jeopardy or just your unbelief. This is an insult to the Godhead, because He died not just for us, but payment has been rendered for all of humanity. Everybody in the whole world (1 John 2 and John 3.17) throughout creation for all of time, wether they accept the gift of life or not, payment has been rendered and paid in full, so that they are without excuse.
You see an eternal One can make that payment because there are no linier timeframe restrictions or size and amount limitations to those who are timeless and immeasurable because they are eternally outside of time and not subject to the barriers they created for mankind whom they control and govern. They are not subject to the restrictions and such as are common to humanity and fallen angels. The Godhead is completely separate from and control over.
And the gift that They offer us in the gospel is just that, an eternal non-linier way of living. A timeless one like They have. Otherwise They have only supplied a bandage, then the gospel of the cross has no completion but points to another event to save humanity, but that is an insult. For even John the Baptist said to Christ “are you the coming one, or do we seek another? To which Christ; 22 answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them. 23 And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.” (Luke 7) Why? Because we get those things too. But you must trade in the old for the new. You cannot serve God and Mammon so be careful how you participate in those provisions.
How is that for a health, safety and life insurance policy? And the only payment due for this is thankfulness and graditude. Your money has no value here but is an insult. You choose.
So it is the mindset of their very self that does so because that is all their mind can do without correctly understanding the life of God that was in Christ Jesus and was given to us in His will and testament and activated then for some, and retroactive for other, and continues to be available to all who are willing to accept this gift of life in Christ. He defeated sin and death to deal with it once and for all who believe in Him to start living their eternal life at the moment they first believe knowing that death no longer has power over us. So what is your worst case scenario fear? Take it to the cross because Christ took that too.
Here is what is written in Romans about those who grapple with this topic.
6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who have died to sin (being separated from the Father) live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into His death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we too can walk in newness of life”.
And this life that we talk about is diametrically opposite of the living dead of being carnally alive but dead to the living God “at hand”. Their god is dead because he hasn’t given them anything yet.
And we continue from Romans 5, since we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we are also united into the likeness of His resurrection, (as a foregone conclusion) 6 knowing this, that our old man was (past tense) crucified with Him, for our body (of beliefs) of sin to be [a]done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from (all) sin. 8 Now if we (through the working of faith have) died with Christ, we believe that we also live with Him (right now by being) “in Christ “, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him (and those He died for). 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God (for us all too so that we). 11 Likewise (in the same way live because He has gifted us His life, so) you also, [c]reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ our Lord. (In the eternal way He provided for you).
12 Therefore do not let sin, (death and all its associates) reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as [d]instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under (the scrutiny of the) law (that breads condemnation, guilt, dorrow and apologies) but (you are) under grace.” Like Christ said to the woman caught in the very act of adultery, woman where are your accusers? Then she looked up and only saw the love of God in His Son. And that is what we are suppose to do. He is the one we are to reflect. These are His words for us to use to accomplish the same thing. This is the working of the body of Christ. We are His hands, His eyes, ears and words. His compassion, empathy and forgiveness. Like He said, whoever’s sin you forgive I have forgiven.” There is your empowerment.
If you really understood what He gave you as outlined in scripture, you would quit groveling about your lower nature’s weaknesses and activate your new person like His person the same way He did by proclaiming it to be so. Let it be. Don’t keep your old man alive by accentuating your negative. Make your profession of faith about the new you. If you understood how effective this is, you would quit asking, groveling and praying for your carnal person, and awaken to the things already given to you as outlined in scripture as to “attaining to all the riches in Christ “. Can you say, Amen?
You could then quit focusing on and preparing for the old dead to God way of thinking, of trying to stay healthy and safe and such and realize that like a bird smashing itself against a window, thinking it’s fighting against an enemy, it has been fighting against itself with all its grovelling, because of the fear of self insufficiency that kept you paralyzed. But our sufficiency and our freedom is from Christ.
It goes like this from Corinthians; 4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the [a]Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. 10 For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. 11 For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious. 12 Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech— 13 unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. 14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. 15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. 16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
We don’t know if you are able to receive these coverages and godly features, but they are right here for the taking. And because this is all still true today because “today is the day of salvation), start to finish, we continue to proclaim that “The Kingdom of God is at hand”, meaning, within grasp, reachable and attainable, but only to your understanding.
This is the Gospel!