Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

 Our Bodies:

 

            United in the likeness of His resurrection:  

 

Romans 6:3-8

3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,

6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

7 for he who has died is freed from sin.

8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

 

            This is a very powerful passage about the Christian life. Verses 5 and 8 are the ones applicable to our present topic. This is guaranteeing that we’ll be united with Him in the likeness of His resurrection. The same kind of body He has in His resurrection, we will have in ours. It will be a glorious, sin free one. It will never die. It will never get sick or wear out. It will be in His glory. We died with Him, and we shall live with Him.

            The other verses talk about how that being “dead” in Him, we shouldn’t behave like we use to. That old man is dead. We should behave like He did when He was on earth. We should glorify Him with our lives. Sin is no longer our master. He is. Our nature no longer is a sin one. It is a righteous one. We should allow our righteous nature to rule our lives. We can choose to do so. However, we must make that choice every day. We make it one time at the beginning, and then remind ourselves of it every day for the rest of our earthly lives.

 

If you could hear God speak, I believe this is what He would say:

            "You are My special ones, and as such I have great plans for you. I did not choose you out of the world to let you fail. I did not choose you to continue to walk in the same paths that you did before I saved you. I desired from the beginning that you would walk in the same manner that I walked. I desired that you should be free in Me. This freedom is not a freedom to sin, but rather a freedom to choose to follow after Me. When you were in the world, you were not free to choose to not sin. You had no choice. You were born to sin like your father Adam. But now that you have come to know Me and to walk in My freedom, you have a freedom to choose to walk in My Spirit and to not sin. You may make use of this choice or you may not. That is up to you. However, I know that you will be happiest when you walk in My Spirit and to not sin. Trust in Me to make it happen. I will not let you fail. I greatly desire that you succeed.”

 

            85. I will be united with Him in the likeness of His resurrection when He returns.