Bible Discussion Thread

"Let not sin REIGN in yiur mortal body "

This mortal body of ours is still subject to sin and death .But we if Christs are not .

The struggle with any sin has much to do with who RULES?

If sin reigns you will obey it is as simple as that and no matter how much you may struggle against it I say again ,if sin reigns you will obey and sin.

But we should stop and consider that if we are true BORN children of God have humbled ourselves and bowed our knee and confessed and repented of our sin we are no longer under the Law of sin and death but rather under the law of another kingdom even ofGods dear Son.. We are crucified WITH Christ . Buried WITH Christ and RISEN together WITH Christ .

If Christ now reigns in our hearts we will obey Him not out of fear of the consequences of sinning but out of Love . Thus if Christ reigns we not only will not sin but rather begin and increasingly so ,do works of righteousness .

It is an act of faith for now Christ reigns in your heart by faith . Not by feeling not by an act of your will but rather a submission to do His will .

Thry thst are Christs have crucified the flesh with the lusts thereof " that too is an act of faith .

We do not screw ourselves up to act in faith but rather see or understand who in fact reigns .

For by His cross and His death and resurrection not only a resurrection from the dead but is now far and above every principality and power and dominion .."

"He who knew no sin became sin that we might become the righteousness of God in Him"

"He who was rich became poor that we through His poverty might become rich "

The Son of God became the Son of Man that we the sons of men but through Him become the sons of God .

He who lived in the eternal past came into time that we who lived in time might with Him live in that eternal future He has secured fir us .

He in whom was Life willing gave His Life and died so that we who were dead in trespasses and in sin might have life and life more abundantly.