Thirsting Souls Bible Teaching

(Rom 6:10) “For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God.”   We are to “live unto God” also. It is sad that most professing Believers seem to live for self instead of God. As Pastor I have often wondered about those who only come to Morning Worship. How can one possess the Holy Spirit and not be prompted to grow through the teaching of God’s Word?

(Rom 6:10) “For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God.”  As Jesus lived the life we should have lived and thus became our sacrifice for sin, dying in our place so that we could live in His, so He lived unto God the Father and thus should we live. Do you live with pleasing Him in mind? 

(Rom 6:10) “For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.”  Be careful of extra-Biblical teaching; that is, reject anything that is not the Word of God. Jesus died once – period. He was only in the grave three days. He rose again, physical, bodily. Yes, the body is now transformed, but no less physical: (Luk_24:39)“Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”

(Rom 6:9) “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.”  This statement goes contrary to the practice of the mass. Mass means “a rite for the dead”. Their thought is a need to keep Christ dead. No. The need was for Christ to live! If death has no more dominion over Him then it has none over the saved!

(Rom 6:8) “Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:”  I thought we are alive “now” in Him. We are spiritually. This is referring to the resurrection of our physical bodies. They will be changed  into eternal uncorrupted bodies, better than that which Adam and Eve possessed, made in the likeness of Jesus’ resurrection body!

(Rom 6:8) “Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:”   ‘Live with Him” Praise God, I live with Him now (right now) and will live in a visual presence (on my part) with Him for eternity! What a precious God to save a sinner, cleanse him, and put him constantly in His presence!

(Rom 6:8) “Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:”  This is reality. God can do anything. He has chosen to literally see those who turn from their sins and ask for mercy to be saved, as dying in His Son. Since this is truth, we without doubt live (as in never to die again) in Him.

(Rom 6:6) “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.”  Notice to practice sin is to serve sin. It is to be a slave to sin. Interesting that when we willfully choose to sin we think we are simply fulfilling that which we desire to do. But truth is, it is servitude – every bit as much as any addiction.

Rom 6:6  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.  The person of whom I am ashamed of his desires and actions, God put in Christ on the cross. He is dead. In March of 1973 he died and I was born!

(Rom 6:5)  “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:”  I believe the Bible teaches that your soul is the real you. The physical body houses the soul. The spirit is the spiritual body of the soul. When we die we are still clothed, live, in this spiritual body in the presence of God Who is Spirit. But the day will come when the Lord will resurrect and transform our physical bodies into immortal bodies.