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Romans 6:1-23   ESV / 36 helpful votes What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.  Definition:  Sanctification  is a state of separation unto God; all believers enter into this state when they are born of God: “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and  sanctification  and redemption” (1 Corinthians 1:30). This is a once-for-ever separation, eternally unto God. Sanctification is intimately linked with redemption. Y...

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation. For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth. For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.      For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “ The one who does these things will live by them .” * But the righteousness that is by faith says: “ Do not say in your heart , * ‘ Who will ascend into heaven? ’” * (that is, to bring Christ down) or “ Who will descend into the abyss? ” * (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? “ The word is near you , in your mouth and in your heart ” * (that is, the word of faith that we preach), because ...

Living in an age of rapidfire communications and shameless self  promotion, The church stands at a crossroads in a place where it's never stood before. With all the hype in the media with self-promotion and self love will the church follow in the same steps that the world is following in right now? I could say she the church is sick but whom I to diagnose a problem, for which there seems no remedy? Has enlightenment taking the place of the cross, or has the world taken the place of the preaching of sin in our churches? To diagnose this problem I want to go on a quest first, to diagnose my own heart. But it's my own heart is sick with said what does the heart of the church look like? It's clear I am not the church but I am a part of the church or more theologically correct to say I'm a part of the body of Christ. In fact the Bible teaches that Christ is the head of the church and if anyone is in Christ the Holy Spirit resides in that person making them a part of the univ...

The question now rises will man ever find peace within himself and with his fellow human beings? As a born-again Christian we are taught that man is filled with sin and filled with trouble until the time when Christ comes to redeem the world. I had a conversation with a close friend of mine the other day and part of that conversation was due to the fact that man's restlessness in society has reached a point where it is almost impossible for them to find a sense of peace within themselves and with each other. The Church of Jesus Christ has often not been a hindrance to peace but the church in history has proven many times and time again that peace is possible within the human soul. There are many spiritual paths it doesn't take one to believe in God to understand that the remedy to the restlessness and our hearts is found only through a deep relationship with the God who created them. In the Old Testament Moses taught that the law says that when one is offended or when one is do...

Last year I celebrated my 40th birthday this November I will be turning 41. It pretty much seems just like yesterday when I was living with a bunch of guys in a house in Peterborough Ontario and attending Trent University. I had just come out of a rocky relationship, Rocky for me because I couldn't understand why the person didn't want to have a relationship anymore but despite that I still remain friends with that person however my life journey had begun to take place kind of like a train going one direction without any stops in between it. I enjoyed waking up early mornings and taking the bus to Trent University. Even though it was pretty much alone, I did meet a couple of friends that I knew from Toronto but I was working for Greenpeace there. University life was not suited for me I came to that conclusion when I was required to write my first essay. I don't remember the topic on which I had to write but I'm pretty sure it was for my native studies class I was stud...

It is funny how evil tends to remake itself in different forms. The title of this blog refers to something that I would referred to in the Bible as the wicked constantly reinventing evil. How does a society who is so evil already begin to invent new forms of evil? And why would we want to discuss wickedness in this blog anyways? With civil unrest in many countries, and societies literally descending into immoral absoluteness, The morality of which must be questioned and a very dogmatic and pretty pragmatic way. There is nothing pretty about evil but to discuss this in a pragmatic way gives us an understanding of how far society has descended into the abyss of sin. It first started out as a denial of God then progressed as a denial of hell and now it is progressing as a denial of heaven. What do you say to many of the Christian saints who are now in the abode of paradise who are enjoying the blissful treats of their earthly desires so to speak if that's what Heaven is really like? W...

The question remains what does it take for two people or parties to be at peace with one another? Does it take diplomacy I was never a political science major in university but what I do know is that I have had my share of conflicts in my life. When nations fight against nations as it is predicted in the Bible what happened at the end times, when individual religious groups fights against another individual religious group, when my Christian ideology goes against your secular ideology, how can we find peace and reconciliation between the two of us when we both are hell-bent on our own ideas? Diplomacy works at a level that is very Temporel wars are caused when there are no solutions to the problems that we face. When faced with imminent danger countries and nations are either pushed into the response of fight or flight which can be equally important in our own individual lives. If we haven't prepared before hand and advanced for such conflicts as a people when these conflicts arise...