United in Death & Raised to New Life, Part 1 (TMF:1584)

Thursday, April 08, 2021
Peace to Live By: United in Death & Raised to New Life, Part 1 (TMF:1584) - Daniel Litton
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       Continuing on. Verse 3: “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.” A transformative thing happens at the time we come into personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. You see, when each of us became a Christian, when each of us was born again, we were united with Christ is his death. The only problem is, how is this possible? Well, one way to look at it is that, at the time we believed in Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins, at that very moment in which we believed, it is as if God himself, acting as Doc Brown, came to us, and we, as Marty, got into the Delorean time machine with him, and he took us back to 30 A.D. or so, at the very moment in which Christ was dying on the cross, and somehow united us with Christ in his death.