Archive of Daily Bible Lessons
March 22-31, 2004
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3.22.04 | More on the Resurrection and Sanctification |
3.23.04 | Even More on the Resurrection and Sanctification |
3.24.04 | Still More on the Resurrection and Sanctification |
3.25.04 | Once More on the Resurrection and Sanctification |
3.26.04 | The Resurrection: Reality, Not Dead Religion |
3.27.04 | The New Covenant of Grace: A Covenant of Relationship |
3.28.04 | The Security & Intimacy of Your Relationship to God |
3.29.04 | Death In Adam or Life In Christ |
3.30.04 | Reigning in Life through Christ |
3.31.04 | In Christ, a New Creation |
For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:21-22) |
God's new covenant of grace is a covenant of relationship...
In the beginning, Adam had an intimate, personal relationship with God, his Creator. "The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being . . . Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it" (Genesis 2:7, 15). In the beginning, Adam served the Lord and daily had fellowship with Him, when He would walk "in the garden in the cool of the day" (Genesis 3:8).
The only remedy for the spiritually dead human family would be through a relationship to a new *family head*
There are only two *families* to which you can belong: Adam's or Christ's. There are only two family head's to which you can be related: Adam or Christ.
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Creator God, my Father, I confess that I was born into Adam's sinful line. I have demonstrated my inherited sin nature on a multitude of occasions. I praise You for sending Your Son to rescue me from Adam's race and to *born me again* into Your glorious family -- in Christ, Amen. |
For if by the one man's {Adam's} offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:17) |
God wants you to grow in the magnificent blessing of living victoriously
through Lord Jesus. You CAN have a triumphant Christian walk. How? By developing an ever more intimate acquaintanceship
with your Savior, Jesus. Why is this so? Because you are only able to
"reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ."
To break free of spiritual deadness, a new and greater resource is needed.
One of these two resources is possessed by you, and by every other believer in Christ: "the gift of righteousness."
Let me try and explain it another way --
You *wear* the righteousness of Jesus because God clothed you in that righteousness with His own hands. It is a gift from God to you. Can you lose it? The Bible says: "The gifts and the calling of God are without repentance {irrevocable}." (Romans 11:29) Concerning your daily prayer life, what does God want you to do, in light of the righteouness that He has imputed unto you? The Bible says...
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Lord God of grace, help me to live my life so as to show forth the glorious righteousness of Jesus in me. Teach me to pray often, and boldly, and lovingly. Help me, beloved Father, to daily draw upon the abundant measures of Your grace, that I might live victoriously, through Your Son, Christ Jesus, Amen. |
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. (Galatians 6:15) |
In the relationship you have with the Lord through the new covenant of grace, there is intimacy, fullness of life, spiritual victory, and so much more. When you received Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, you were *born again* by the Spirit. In that very moment -- in the twinkling of an eye -- you became a new creation in Christ Jesus!
What *happened* to you when you were born-again? MUCH! We shall list just 8 of the infinite and glorious changes God made in and for you. But these 8 should be more than enough to bring tears of joy and worship to your eyes.
I'm supposed to end each lesson with an *application* but let me catch my breath. I am simply overwhelmed by the grace of God. Oh the AMAZING grace that saved us all! Oh the beauty and altogether loveliness of our Heavenly Father! He is just so awesome, so kind, so merciful, so compassionate, so wise, so patient, so WONDERFUL! Today's Application: Go to your prayer closet. Kneel. Raise holy hands. Worship Him. Praise Him. Rejoice!!! |
Dear Lord, giver of new life, my heart celebrates the wondrous fact that I am a new creation in Christ. Words are so inadequate. I can only say THANK YOU, from the bottom of my soul, that my sins and weaknesses and meanness and hardness of heart did not prevent Your work of grace in me. I praise You for Your glorious grace, Amen. |
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