Every believer must experience a death here on earth. Not that death to the grave but a death here on earth. Yes, like a dead man walking!
I’ve heard 2 Corinthians 5:17 many times since I got baptized in 2020 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” but it was on May 25, 2023 I truly got this revelation, that something in me must die in order for me to truly live.
“And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” Romans 8:10-11 KJV
When I looked at the word quicken – “zōopoieō” one of the Greek definitions mean to (re-) vitalize (literally or figuratively): – make alive, give life.
If one should try to picture this with the natural mind they would say how? How is this possible? How can my mortal body be quicken? the apostle Paul answered this in 1 Corinthians 15:35-36.
“But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die…” 1 Corinthians 15:35-36 KJV
I love the Passion Translation!
1 Corinthians 15:35-38 TPT
“I can almost hear someone saying, “How can the dead come back to life? And what kind of body will they have when they are resurrected?”
[36] Foolish man! Don’t you know that what you sow in the ground doesn’t germinate unless it dies?
[37] And what you sow is not the body that will come into being, but the bare seed. And it’s hard to tell whether it’s wheat or some other seed.
[38] But when it dies, God gives it a new form, a body to fulfill his purpose, and he sees to it that each seed gets a new body of its own and becomes the plant he designed it to be.
Hello??! Listen! In order to live the life that God has called us to, the old self as we know it, should be no more.
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Romans 6:3-5 KJV
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 KJV
A few things for us believers to think on is did we die? Have we laid to rest the old man (the old mindset, the old ways) and are we living this life through Jesus Christ?
Have we died in order for us to truly live again?
