WHATEVER LIFE THROWS AT YOU: REMEMBER, YOU ARE EQUIPPED, EMPOWERED AND ANOINTED FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS..... YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. YOU ARE NOT LACKING - GODS ABILITY IS IN YOU.
REJOICE, REJOICE AND BE GLAD, YOUR INCREASE AND VICTORY IS AT HAND.
...Have an EXCITING DAY, FOR CHRIST IN YOU IS YOUR HOPE OF GLORY...... (Col1:27)

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES DAILY DEVOTIONAL:

THE CHRISTIAN: A PRODUCT OF HIS RESURRECTION!

Tuesday, June 3rd_with Pastor Anita

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 salvation were all about salvation
from sin, there wouldn’t have been
any 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 began, not when Jesus
died, but when God raised Him from
the dead; at the resurrection. 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, “That 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.” This lets us know
that salvation comes by believing in
the resurrection of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and the subsequent confession
of His Lordship. So to answer the
question: who is a Christian? A
Christian (amongst other things) 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
is a new species; one that never
existed before.
No wonder James declares that “Of his
(God’s) own will begat he us with the
word of truth, that we should be a kind
of first fruits 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. Halleluiah!

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 seated together with Him in the place of victory, authority, and dominion ever, 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:
John 18:1-27,
1 Chronicles 11-13
2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
1 Corinthians 15:20-28,
Proverbs 30
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