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1 | How does death work in us? | 2 Cor 4:12 | Mommapbs | 147712 | ||
Greetings terrib - great prose! Thanks for sharing that. In a rather twisted sort of way, I see a parallel to how death is at "work" to bring life. All too often I haven't let it do its work in me to remind me that my life is hidden in Christ and it is not I who live but Christ lives in me to will and to act and to accomplish HIS good purpose. (Which, hard as they are to understand, are always with what God knows is best for me in mind!) During a recent sermon, Hayes Wicker told the story of a Bhuddist's conversion to Christianity. When asked why he had "converted" the former Bhuddist replied that he came to a fork in the road where he had a choice to follow a dead man or a Man who is alive. He chose to follow Christ. Daily we, as believers, also have a choice: to follow the will of a "dead" man or the will of the One who is alive and living in us! Blessings, mommapbs |
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2 | How does death work in us? | 2 Cor 4:12 | terrib | 147714 | ||
Hi Mommapbs, It is not so twisted, mommapbs, the seed that dies and is put in the ground will bring forth fruit, and what comes forth does not look like that that was put in the ground. So, we also, being put in the ground are not the same. 1Co 15:37 and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 1Co 15:38 But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own. So it is in the natural, so it is in the spiritual. From death comes life; from Adam's spiritual death came Jesus, life. From Jesus's natural death comes spiritual life. And our acceptance of Him is death to the old but life to the new. We have much to be thankful for! 1Co 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord. Better stop now or I'll go into a sermon. terrib |
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