Your spirit is alive:
32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
27 “He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken.”
9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
10 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
We don’t serve a dead God, and we
don’t have a dead Savior. Those who died in Him are not really dead. This tells
you that He is the God of the living. If He is the God of the living Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob who were not born again, is He not the God of the living
believers who have gone on before us?
Sometimes Christians live like they
are still in the flesh … that they haven’t been born from above. But this says
that we’re not in the flesh. We’re in the Spirit because the Spirit of God who
raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us. Our spirit is alive because of the
righteousness of Jesus in us. We should be living like it. People should be
able to tell the difference between the way we live and the way unbelievers
live.
We can also be certain that though
this mortal body may die, His Spirit will give that body life because He dwells
in us. Hallelujah!
If you could hear God speak, I believe this is what He would
say:
"Your
spirit is alive to Me, My children. You are not mere robots, but rather you are
My friends. You desire to please Me because of My Spirit who indwells you. Your
desire is to do My will because your spirit has been reborn of My Spirit. My Spirit
desires to walk in holiness and so your spirit desires to walk in holiness.
Trust in My Spirit to guide you into the paths of righteousness; for He will
not turn to the side, but will only walk in the path that I have chosen for
you. You are victorious in Me. You shall not fail as long as you trust in Me to
guide into the paths of righteousness.”
54. He is not just my
God when I die. He is my God while I am still alive. Not only am I alive in the
flesh, my spirit is also alive in Him.
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