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Bible Reading: Romans 6:1-8

Key Verse: Verse 8 – “Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:”

Key Words: if

Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse years ago wrote the following in regard to the word “if.”

“We constantly use the word ‘if’ to express disbelief and to express belief.  A young man might tell his parents that he was leaving the house to go to the drug store, and his sister might look after him and say, ‘If you’re going to the drug store, I’m Joan of Arc.’  Later the mother of the household might start to leave the house, saying that she was going to the drug store, and the daughter might say, ‘Oh, if you’re going to the drug store, bring me some toothpaste.’  In the one sentence she expresses doubt and disbelief; in the other sentence she expresses confidence and trust.  The ‘if’ in the text, ‘Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him’ (Romans 6:8) is of the latter variety.  Because we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him.

“We possess that life, that new man, in and around and overshadowing all of our thoughts and actions and being.  That new man not only resembles Christ, but that new man within us is Christ Himself; for we are made partakers of the divine nature, and it is Christ in us which is our hope of glory.”

 

                                                                                                Dr. Mike Rouse

What to do:  

✞ “If” you want real “life” you must die to self.