11/10/22 CALLED TO THE RESURRECTION LIFE

11/10/22 CALLED TO THE RESURRECTION LIFE

If you can believe that God can and will impart Divine nature to you (not making you God, but imparting a nature that conforms to the likeness of God's communicable attributes), then it is only reasonable (and it is Biblical) to believe God will cleanse you from the Adamic (Carnal, inherited Sin nature).

2 Peter 1:3-4
3  According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Remember, we were born with a human nature (the nature to be human, consisting of Body, Soul, Spirit), with which God created Adam and Eve, and which Jesus had from the time of His conception, as the seed of the woman.

We were also born with a Sinful nature (the nature to sin, consisting of the Carnal mind aka the Old Man), which was passed to all of Adam's descendants. This is why Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus did not have a sinful nature.

When we confess, believe and repent we are Born Again, or Born of the Spirit. It is at this time we receive a New nature (aka the New Man). From the time of our conversion we are able to obey God. The Bible says that he who is born of God does not commit sin. But we also have an old attitude of rebellion, which clings to the fleshly life rather than embracing the spiritual life. When faced with right and wrong, the battle of the Old and the New takes place. It is still left to the Human Nature to make the decision. By God's grace we are able to choose God's way.

However, the remaining inclination to sin causes internal strife and robs us of the fullness of the Holy Spirit. When we are willing to have God purify our hearts, we align with Christ in His crucifixion. This is why the Bible says:

Galatians 2:20
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.

Romans 6:4-14
4 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.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Galatians 5:22-25
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Galatians 6:14
14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

God has not called us to live, "the crucified life" but, "the resurrection life." Crucifixion is death to the Old self, which qualifies us for the continuous Resurrection life in the Spirit, without the internal battle. We are still able to sin, because our Human Nature has the power to obey or disobey God. The quality of our spiritual life is considerably better because we are not having to contend with the Old Nature, which is called, "the Law of Sin and Death," in Romans seven and eight.

Resurrection Life In This World Leads To Resurrection From The Dead In The World To Come

Philippians 3:8-11
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.