READ YOUR RHAPSODY OF REALITIES DAILY DEVOTIONAL CHRISTIANITY IS BASED ON THE RESURRECTION - PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME SATURDAY 3RD, DECEMBER 2016
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Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as
Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also
should walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4).
If Christianity were all about salvation from sin, there wouldn’t have
been the need for Jesus to rise from the dead. His death on the cross would
have been enough; it paid for all our sins and guaranteed complete
propitiation. However, that’s redemption, and not Christianity!
Redemption refers to saving someone by paying a price. So when Jesus
died, He paid the price for man’s redemption with His own life; He did that for
all humanity; not for Christians. The Christian isn’t the man that Christ died
for. Look at it this way: when Jesus hung on the cross, in the mind of God, we
were all hanging there too (in Him), for He was our representative. When He
cried out, “It is finished,” and gave up the ghost, we also died in Him.
Now, here’s the big thing, which Satan didn’t see coming and the angels
still marvel at, and seek to look into: Christianity is based on the
resurrection of Jesus, and not on His death. The resurrection of Jesus Christ
gave us something far beyond redemption; it ushered us into a newness of life.
We’ve been raised up together with Christ (Ephesians 2:6).
Romans 10:9 says, “...If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.” It lets us know that salvation comes by believing in the
resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the subsequent confession of His
Lordship. A Christian is one who identifies with the resurrected Christ. The
Christian has no past, for the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore if
any man be in Christ, he is a new creature”; meaning that he’s a new species;
one that never existed before.
No wonder James declares that “Of his own will begat he us with the word
of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures” (James
1:18). Being born again, therefore, you’re not the “redeemed”; you’re the fruit
of the redemptive work of Christ. Redemption was consummated with His death,
but Christianity came from the resurrection. Hallelujah!
PRAYER
Dear Father, I thank you for making me one with Christ. I’m a new
creation and I walk in the newness of life, conscious that I’ve been raised
together with Christ, and made to sit together with Him in the place of
victory, authority, and dominion forever, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Further Study: || 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man [be] in
Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things
are become new. ||
|| Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet
not I, but Christ liveth 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 for me. ||
Daily Scripture Reading
1-Year Bible Reading Plan: 1 John 4,
Daniel 1-2
Daniel 1-2
2-Year Bible Reading Plan: Revelation 6:11-17,
Joel 3
Joel 3
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