What's His Is Ours
Christ's righteousness belongs to those who receive by faith God's promise of forgiveness.
[ posted 9/14/2012 9:17AM ]
Picture this: a bride and groom dashing out of the church, through the showers of birdseed and into the limo, all aglow with the light of love from the vows they've just taken. In the backseat of the car, en route to the reception, they embrace and kiss. ...
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Bert Warden
" For it is Christ, brought from heaven to earth by the Spirit, who does the believing in and for me, much as Paul says: "I no longer live, but Christ lives in me" (Gal. 2:20)" It is too bad that Professor Wilson does not quote the entire verse: "I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me, 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 up for me." The title of a book by L.E.Maxwell, the founder of Prairie Bible Institute, says it all, "Born Crucified". Not only does Christ now live in me but I am, as another verse says "dead to sin" Salvation is tri-partite: Believing in Christ I receive now pardon from sin's PENALTY and am promised future deliverance from sin's PRESENCE (heaven) but also here and now I am dead to the POWER of sin having died with Christ on the cross and been raised to newness of life.