Today,
Scriptures are shared on what it means to offer oneself to Jesus
Christ as Savior and Lord. One of the fighters in the “Yahoo!
Answers” public forum on Religion and Spirituality who uses the ID
“Anonymous” (no profile information shown) posted the following:
What
does it mean to give your life to Christ?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if
ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall
live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons
of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to
fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,
Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit,
that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs
of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with
him, that we may be also glorified together. (Romans 8:
16-18, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Rendering Our Reasonable Service (06/15/2018); What
Divine Salvation Requires (05/15/2018); Knowing What To Believe?
(12/31/2017); Bereavement, Death and Suffering (11/10/2017); Rebirth,
Growth and Transformation (09/29/2017); Sons of GOD Suffer?
(09/19/2017); Becoming A Full Person (02/12/2017)
“Anonymous”,
among Christians, to give oneself to divinity is to acknowledge
accountability to GOD. Believers willingly accept the permanent
changes in their character, makeup, and substance that will be
provided through operations of imparted life essence (we
also say, breath; spirit; word) from the divine fullness (the
Creator; the Godhead; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit). Sinners
are to commit themselves to experiencing discovery, gradual growth,
learning, suffering, unselfish service, and transformation to exist
as immortal, incorruptible companions of GOD. Consider again the
following that uses language from the Bible:
1.
Romans 6: 3-6, King James Version (KJV): 3 Know ye not, that so
many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his
death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the
Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we
have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be
also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing
this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of
sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
2.
Romans 6: 11-17, KJV: 11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be
dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our
Lord. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye
should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your
members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield
yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your
members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14 For sin
shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but
under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under
the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom
ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye
obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have
obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
3.
Romans 12: 1, KJV: 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
4.
2nd Timothy 2: 11-13, KJV: 11 It is a faithful
saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with
him: 12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him:
if we deny him, he also will deny us: 13 If we believe not,
yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
5.
Galatians 2: 20, KJV: 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.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 6. Romans 8: 5-9, KJV: 5 For
they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but
they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be
carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against
God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye
are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of
God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is
none of his.) Even so, I trust this
fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
Washington,
DC
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