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I am not a theologian so I could be wrong and any of may correct me with this article.
I found that there are 3 kinds of death mentioned in the Bible.
1. Physical death - the common death that we know; the separation of the spirit from the body.
2. Death to sin - this happens when we receive the Lord Jesus Chist in our hearts and make Him our Lord and Savior. As a result, His gift of salvation, we will receive and we are now save. Being dead to sin means death to the world. Sin no longer has the authority over us and we are now a free being. A lot of believers stop here. After accepting the Lord Jesus Christ, they just go to church and stay there. Nothing more, nothing less. I admit that I, myself fall into this stagnation. I enjoyed being dead to sin. I enjoyed the forgiveness of he Lord every time I sin against Him. But later in my walk with Him, I discovered another death that should happen to me. The third kind of death - Death to self.
3. Death to self - even though we are dead as far as sin and this world is concerned, we still have self to fight against. Our flesh and ego is still fighting against God. Even though, we have accepted the free gift of salvation, we still have our flesh that wants to rule our lives. I realized that my motives and decision are clouded by self. When I discovered from the Word of God that I need to die to self - I begun to understand what the New Testaments said about "putting to death self" and Paul's famous statements, "to live is Christ and to die is gain" and "No longer I who live but Christ who lives in me"
I don't want to be very theological about this but to simply put, Jesus needs to be at the driver seat.
We need to die to self.
I want to discuss more on this but I don't have the luxury called time.'Till next time.
I found that there are 3 kinds of death mentioned in the Bible.
1. Physical death - the common death that we know; the separation of the spirit from the body.
2. Death to sin - this happens when we receive the Lord Jesus Chist in our hearts and make Him our Lord and Savior. As a result, His gift of salvation, we will receive and we are now save. Being dead to sin means death to the world. Sin no longer has the authority over us and we are now a free being. A lot of believers stop here. After accepting the Lord Jesus Christ, they just go to church and stay there. Nothing more, nothing less. I admit that I, myself fall into this stagnation. I enjoyed being dead to sin. I enjoyed the forgiveness of he Lord every time I sin against Him. But later in my walk with Him, I discovered another death that should happen to me. The third kind of death - Death to self.
3. Death to self - even though we are dead as far as sin and this world is concerned, we still have self to fight against. Our flesh and ego is still fighting against God. Even though, we have accepted the free gift of salvation, we still have our flesh that wants to rule our lives. I realized that my motives and decision are clouded by self. When I discovered from the Word of God that I need to die to self - I begun to understand what the New Testaments said about "putting to death self" and Paul's famous statements, "to live is Christ and to die is gain" and "No longer I who live but Christ who lives in me"
I don't want to be very theological about this but to simply put, Jesus needs to be at the driver seat.
We need to die to self.
I want to discuss more on this but I don't have the luxury called time.'Till next time.
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