Did you know that you were born with an enemy? The Bible tells us that we were all enemies with God. And furthermore, we were hostile toward him, and alienated from him because of our sin.
“We know that sin and death entered the world through Adam and spread to all mankind, thus, all were made sinners. As a result, we are all born in bondage to sin!”
“I was taught for much of my Christian life that in order to stay right with God, I must ask God to forgive me each time I sinned. And so I tried to keep a mental list of all my sins so I could ask God to forgive me for each one. Do you know how hard it is to remember every sin you commit?”
“When a person receives Christ by faith, they are immediately baptized into Christ’s death, burial and resurrection (a spiritual baptism). The bible refers to those folks as being “in Christ”, i.e., in union with Christ. This is a permanent union in which Christ’s spirit is joined with our human spirit and Christ becomes our new life.”
“Thus, our new identity is said to be, ‘in Christ’, i.e., ‘in union with Christ’.”
“It’s you not putting confidence in your abilities, i.e., your flesh. It’s you walking as Jesus did, in complete humility and dependence.”
“The truth is, we cannot live the Christian life in our own strength, and the sooner we realize that the sooner Christ will be free to live his life and demonstrate his power through us.”
“Brokenness refers to the process of breaking man from putting confidence in anything other than God.”
“Living a surrendered life begins with a surrendered attitude. It acknowledges that my life is not my own, I have been bought with a price.”