THE POWER OF YOUR NEW LIFE

"FOR YOU ARE DEAD, and YOUR LIFE is HID WITH Christ in God." (Colossians 3:3).

This sounds like a paradox. But it is life transforming truth. Your old sinful and guilty self died WITH Christ. 


YOU ARE DEAD! (Ponder).


You have already paid the price of the law for your old sinful life through the death of Christ for you on the Cross. When Christ rose again from the dead, you also rose WITH Him. Apostle Paul affirms it in a separate text.


"I AM CRUCIFIED with Christ: NEVERTHELESS I LIVE; yet not I, but CHRIST LIVES IN ME…" (Galatians 2:20a).


Now your new life is the righteous and innocent resurrection life of Christ. Your new life is hid WITH Christ in God. You are now a part of the new body of Christ on the earth.


CHRIST IS YOUR LIFE


"When Christ, WHO IS OUR LIFE, shall APPEAR, then shall you also APPEAR WITH him in glory." (Colossians 3:4).


Think about the fact that Christ IS now your life. Who is Christ? If you know who He is you will know the value of the life you now have. 


"And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, FEAR NOT; I am the first and the last:


I am HE THAT LIVES, and WAS DEAD; and, behold, I AM ALIVE for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." (Revelation 1:17-18).


The conqueror of death and hell, now lives in you. The one who holds the keys of hell and of death is living in you. He is now your life. 


Christ is saying to you, "There is nothing to fear. I broke the power of death and hell over you when I rose triumphantly from the dead. In me death and hell can have no power over you."


But it is also by His faith that we can live this new life. If you are in Christ, you died with Christ. You rose with Christ. You live with Christ. You live by Christ. You live by His faith. You live by His grace. Christ is living through you. What remains now is for you to appear WITH Christ in glory.


"...and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by THE FAITH of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." (Galatians 2:20b).


Jesus Christ is Lord!

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