Sunday, December 28, 2014

Do you know you are bought with a price?

Gal 2:20 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

Our lives belong to Christ once we accept Him as our Savior. Yet we live as if that doesn't matter at all. We don't act like we have a king. We don't live as if we have a real Heavenly Father.  We treat God as a genie in a lamp, rubbing at that lamp in prayer hoping to get the genie to grant our wishes. We don't treat God as our true Heavenly Father. A Father interested in our ETERNITY, not our temporal life except as it pertains to our eternal life.  Our earthly fathers are supposed to take care of our temporal needs, they are supposed to guide us as we grow to maturity. They are supposed to be examples to us as we take on the role of Fathers. Our Heavenly Father is our eternal Father.  Yet we barely acknowledge Him at all let alone as a Heavenly Father.  We are crucified with Christ when we accept Him as our Savior.  Yet His crucifixion took His earthly life leaving Him with a risen body ascended to the Father returned to earth, touched by disciples and ultimately taking His place beside the Father in Heaven.  We are figuratively crucified with Christ and yet we live on, the crucifixion   is our death to self and life to Christ therefore we can say that Christ lives in us.  We live on in our flesh bodies,  we do so by FAITH in the Son of God, who LOVES us and DIED for us.

Do we realize that we are BOUGHT with a price?

1Co 6:19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1Co 6:20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

We are NOT our own and yet we don't act as if we've been bought. We act as if we are our own.  We live as if the world revolves around us and NOT around Christ.  Our every action is not made with Christ in mind, and why not? WHY NOT! Because we are sleeping Laodiceans who don't realize our wretched, poor, blind and naked state!  We think we are RICH in Christ, we think we SEE, we think we are CLOTHED with the righteousness of Christ but the truth is we are so caught up in our SELVES we don't live for Christ at all! We play act! We pretend! We put on the guise! We are fools, stupid, stupid fools, the lot of us!

GOD FORGIVE US! FORGIVE US GOD FOR OUR WRETCHED STATE!

Save us, Father! Save us from ourselves!  We would buy of You gold tried in fire! We would buy of You eye salve! We would buy of You Your righteousness!

Rev. 3:18

Bless us, Father, bless us!   In the name of Your holy  Son, Jesus Christ our LORD, our Savior!


Amen!

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