If Christ be in you...

Rom 8:10  And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Rom 8:11  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.

The body is dead.

If we have Christ in us, the body is dead.

Yet, the body being dead isn't in a literal sense, right? The flesh nature, the carnal nature, the sinful nature, our bodies are dead in this way if Christ is in us. To say we are dead if we have Christ would leave Christ with no living followers and that's not possible. We live IN CHRIST and when we live in Christ our selfishness must die completely. The part of us that must live is the SPIRIT because it is our SPIRIT that joins with CHRIST'S SPIRIT and in doing so we become a part of CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS. We have no righteousness of our own in our own carnal, flesh bodies, it doesn't exist. There is NOTHING we can do to give ourselves righteousness.

The SPIRIT of our GOD raised JESUS from the DEAD, this is the SAME SPIRIT MUST LIVE IN US.  IF the SPIRIT of our GOD who raised JESUS from the dead LIVES in us then we will also LIVE. Our bodies that are subject to death will one day be filled with life all by HIS SPIRIT that lives in US.

LIVING in the SPIRIT is everything! Because only then are we LIVING in our SAVIOR.

We MUST live in the SPIRIT, not in the flesh. 

Think about that. 

We are NOT to live for our flesh!

We are to LIVE for GOD!

We are to LIVE in the SPIRIT!

Is it easy? No. Surrendering self isn't easy. Killing a part of us so that another lives, it seems all but impossible, right?  And it has to be this way because we cannot lay claim to any credit for any righteousness of our own, including surrendering our selves.  We must cling to CHRIST and it is through HIM and only through HIM that we will live and be able to surrender ourselves to HIM fully.  We choose and HE does all the rest!  PRAISE GOD!

IN HIS LOVE! ONLY in HIS LOVE! By HIS GRACE!

More tomorrow by HIS MERCY!