In order for you to minister Life, death has to work in you. Always remember this, you CANNOT give what you don’t have. “Silver and gold, have I none,” Peter said, “but such as I have give I thee…” He could only give what he had in his reservoir. He had no money but praise God, he had the anointing and that’s what he ministered to the lame man.

John 12:24
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.”

2 Corinthians 4:11-12
“For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death is working in us, but life in you.”

What is the Christian called to die to?

1. Death to self (Matthew16:21-27)
2. Death to the world (Galatians 6:14; 1 John 2:15-17)
3. Death to the flesh (Romans 6:6; Galatians 2:20; 5:23)
4. Death to sin (Romans 8:11)
5. Death to the Law (Romans 7:1-6)

You will not be fully useful to God until you experience complete death. Death means that you reach the end of yourself (as I wrote in my previous post) and look to Jesus entirely for Salvation. Then you will be a corpse, dead to all the corruption of sin but alive unto God. Dead to the Law but married to Jesus who is risen from the dead and thereby bringing fruit unto God.

So, how does one die? What price do I pay in order to die? Now, that’s where the preciousness of our Lord’s Finished Work at the Cross ✝️ of Calvary comes in 🙌🏾
You do not pay any price because He (Christ) already did 2,000 years ago. He paid it all. “It Is Finished,” Jesus famously said before He drew His last breath.

Christ is the Head of the Church and we are His body on the earth, each of us members in particular. When He died we died with him too (you cannot separate a person’s head from their body). When He rose, we rose with Him too. Hallelujah! That is the beauty of the new birth. “If any man be in Christ, he [or she] is in Christ, the old has gone, the New has come.” – 2 Corinthians 5:17.

I need not put myself to death, rather I am to reckon (consider) myself dead to the afore mentioned things because God reckons me to be so in Christ (Romans 8:11). I need not do a thing (and if I did try to, I would be contradicting the Finished Work of the Cross of Christ) but rather renew my mind to what God’s Word already says I am in Christ. Paul says in Colossians 3:1-4,

“If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.”

Notice that the Christian is recognised as dead yet alive to God in Christ. I did not do anything to attain death and resurrection but Christ did it for me and that is why I can confidently say that I am crucified with Christ. When He died, I died with Him. When He rose, I rose with Him too 🤩

Now, none of these things will make sense or have effect if you have not experienced the new birth. You must be born again. How does one do that?

If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. – Romans 10:9‭-‬10

And after experiencing Salvation, meditate on these new creation realities based on the Finished Work of Christ. Otherwise if you don’t, you will find yourself living a contradictory life on the outside to what’s inside of you? And what’s inside the born again Christian? Rather, who is inside us? It is “Christ in you, the hope of glory” – Colossians 1:27.

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