Romans 6:2
2 God forbid [me] [ginomai]. How [pos] shall we, that [hostis] are dead [apothnesko] to sin [hamartia], live [zao] any longer [eti] therein [en] [autos]? KJV-Interlinear
2 By no means! How can we who
died to sin still live in it? ESV
God is giving you a guaranteed winning lottery ticket,
paying the biggest infinite jackpot ever. Who would refuse to take that ticket?
Death is a complete and total separation from
something. Typically, we think of it as a separation from life, as in the
physical death of an individual. And when you are dead you no longer function
amongst the living.
Spiritual death is a separation from God. That death
is corrected by faith in Christ, wherein spiritual death is replaced with
eternal life.
Fellowship death, is something that is experienced by
the Christian, by means of sin. That death is corrected by confession of sin,
which restores the individual into fellowship with God.
So the principle of death applies to several forms of
separation, each being mutually exclusive from the other. The dead and the
living have no interaction. There is no crossover between the two.
So when Christ went to the cross, and paid the price
of sin, and was buried and resurrected, he defeated both sin and death.
Having defeated sin, then when we believe in Christ,
we too identify with Christ, in that we are now dead to sin. Which means there
is no interaction with sin such that sin can take control of our life or
forever prevent us from having eternal life.
This does not mean that we cannot commit sins, for in
this physical world, that is simply how life is.
With eternal life as a result of our salvation, we now
have the opportunity of advancing in our spiritual life to bigger and better
things. To turn our back against that spiritual opportunity, and choose to live
in a temporal and carnal world of sin, which would sabotage that spiritual
opportunity, does not make sense.
Life in this world has its obvious limitations. You
will never be any better than what you are, and you will never have anything
more than this world has to offer.
Life in the spiritual realm, is virtually unlimited.
And you can always have, by pursuing your spiritual life, a destiny for
eternity, that is infinitely beyond your imagination. Most people would say
that is a lot.
And that is the treasure of the spiritual life.
To ignore ones spiritual life, to pretend, to be
indifferent, to simply not care, to not make an effort in advancing oneself in
accordance with Gods will is the quintessence of a fool.
God is giving you a guaranteed winning lottery ticket,
paying the biggest infinite jackpot ever. Who would refuse to take that ticket?
These studies, are a part of the massive
daily study web site at DailyBibeStudy.Org, that is easily accessible, and are
written, so that you can come to Christ if you have not done so already, and
therefore not be lost forever.
And
if you have already believed in Christ, then these studies are written so you
can learn and understand and grow in your spiritual life, so that you can come
to the full knowledge of Christ, so that you can fulfill your meaning and
purpose in life as God intended for you, and so you can qualify for a
phenomenal eternal reward which you will have forever.
To
ignore this opportunity to pursue a daily study means you will be incomplete,
unfulfilled and you will lose out, big time.
The
Daily Bible Study is online, making it possible as never before in all of human
history, to advance in ones relationship with God, through Christ, and to
complete yourself beyond your imagination.
But
you have to decide to make that commitment.
No one else can study for you.
You have to do that yourself.
