Title: Jesus Christ, the Light of Life
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Text Romans 6:3-11
Romans 6:3 Do you not know that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:5 If we have been united in his death, we will also be united in his resurrection.
Romans 6:6 And we know that our old self was crucified with Jesus so that the body of sin might be put to nothing, and that we would no longer be slaves to sin.
Romans 6:7 For the dead have been set free from sin and justified.
Romans 6:8 For if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
Romans 6:9 Knowing that Christ, who was raised from the dead, will die no more, and that death will no longer have dominion over him.
Romans 6:10 For his death was death to sins once for all, but his life he lived to God.
Romans 6:11 In the same way, consider yourselves dead to sins and living to God in Christ Jesus.
Human life has light and dark. It is bright at birth, but dark at death. In this way, there is a contrast in the course of life as well. Success and failure, marriage and divorce, love and hate, glory and suffering. Our bodies also have an inside and an outside. There is an exterior and an interior, and if you look closely at all things, there is light and dark. What would happen if night and day did not coexist? As the night begins, it advances toward the day, and when the day ends, the night comes. Because night and day go together, people can have rest and grain can grow. Every country has its contrasts. With rises and falls, the nations of the world do not last forever, and powers have been constantly shifting.
There is light and dark in the word of God. In the law, there are commands to do and there are commands not to do it. Also, the manifestation of God's deeds is bright and evangelical, but the manifestations of man's deeds are dark because they ultimately fail. Man lacks the ability to keep God's law perfectly. No matter how hard we try, we have a limit where we cannot reach the glory of God in the end.
However, there is light and dark in the life of Jesus Christ, who was incarnated on this earth as the Word of God became flesh. He is the light of this world, the source of all life, and all living things depend on Jesus Christ. That is, he also lived a life of light and darkness. There is a lot of life on this earth or in the universe, but their lives are incomplete because they are not true life and eternal life. There is life, but not eternal life. But Jesus Christ had the true life. His life is a life of true light that has passed through darkness. Sin, death, the devil, and judgment are dark. No one has passed this since Adam. Every man has sinned, and for that sin he dies and his life ends. However, Jesus Christ broke through all the work of darkness and revealed the resurrection life. The Lord Jesus Christ has done and revealed what no human being has ever been able to do.
That's what it is. Romans 6:10 “For his death died to sins once for all, but his life lived to God.” The death of Jesus Christ is death to sin, and His life is living to God. Why does Christianity emphasize the crucifixion of Jesus Christ? Because the death of Jesus Christ on the cross is the most important foundation of Christianity. Romans 5:12 “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all men, because all sinned.” Adam, the ancestor of man, brought sin into the world, and that sin was inherited by all people. Because Adam is the representative of mankind.
No one could break the source of sin that Adam brought into this world, but Jesus Christ is the last Adam and the second man, representing the new mankind. He is the God who created all these creatures, so he is worthy to end them all. Also, if he was not a man, he would not have the qualifications, but he became a man and would have the qualifications. And accept all-inclusive death on the cross, including all people after Adam, including all people until the end of the world's judgment. He took on the sins of all mankind, including the past, present, and future, and put an end to sin and the negative things that Adam brought into this world and everything that belongs to darkness.
There is no other way to the bright light of the life of God than to unite to the death on the cross of Jesus Christ. There is no step 2, no step 3 without step 1. If the Christian life has three stages, the event of union with the death of Jesus Christ is stage 2, and the event of union with the resurrection of Jesus Christ is stage 2. A Christian is one who is united with Jesus Christ. The old man is separated from God, and the new man is united with God. It becomes clear when we contrast Adam and Jesus Christ. Adam listened to his wife, sinned, brought death into this world, and became a separate being from God. Many of the faults in this world have their origins in Adam. Adam's sin was simple, but recall the consequences. How many negative events occurred in Adam's lineage? Brotherly murder and many that followed were unavoidable from God's judgment.
On the other hand, Jesus Christ began life in this world as a being in union with God from the beginning. His existence has been with God since eternity. He was God the Son, who existed before Abraham was born and was glorified with God the Father from eternity. His being was with God, and he was born in a completely different way. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit through the body of a virgin. The seed is God. And from the time he lived on this earth, he put God's priority in everything. Jesus thoroughly obeyed the Word of God. The gates of heaven were opened and I heard the words, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” When Jesus was tempted in the wilderness, he did not fall into the temptations of the devil. Adam fell in the Garden of Eden, but the Lord Jesus did not fall in the wilderness. Compare it to Adam. Jesus showed the affirmation of God to many people on this earth. He preached the gospel of the kingdom, taught his disciples, and healed many sick people. You can see that he is a person who solves people's problems.
And the end of Jesus' life is even more epic. Should I not receive the cup that Heavenly Father gave me over the death of the cross? In order to fulfill all prophecies and laws, he asked if I should go this way of the cross. He prayed a bloody and sweaty prayer of Gethsemane and chose death on the cross. That death is not a glory. Taking on all the darkness and negativity of the whole universe, we receive God's stern judgment, the supreme punishment according to the law. Because the Lord Jesus died on the cross for the sins of the whole world, that is, all our sins, the sinless One took the place of all our sins and our sins were imputed to Jesus Christ. It is as if all the sins of the people were imputed to the Lamb of the Old Testament.
Seeing that his Son was about to carry out the work of redemption by bearing the sins of the whole world, God judged sin. Death gradually came upon the body of Jesus Christ, and the suffering was harsher and more painful than the death of any person in the world. No one could replace him. The words of the high priests, Pharisees, and scribes to come down from the cross and save yourself are the words of the devil. The Lord Jesus saved others, but not himself. The reason is that the first stage, that is, through the deep darkness, was the only way to progress to the true light. If we could not completely atone for and atone for all the sins of this world, those sins would have prevented the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Through the death of Jesus Christ on the cross thoroughly, the power and power of sin is destroyed. It is through the death of Jesus Christ that sin no longer has dominion over man. In Adam, sin reigned, but in Jesus Christ, sin is defeated, and all negative human problems come to an end.
It is a gateway to a new beginning, but that gateway is union with the death of Jesus Christ. Since this great work is an objective and cosmic event in Christ, we must enter by faith into our subjective experience. Baptism means death with Jesus Christ. For those who are baptized, my life is a holy rite of union with the death of Jesus Christ to end all negative things in my life. And this work does not end with a ceremony, but a practical and subjective ceremony based on true facts. There is emotion, gratitude, and joy, and God's boundless love and grace are at work. Human beings owe an unpayable debt to God. That grace is so great and so great that it is impossible to repay it even with the sacrifice of one's life. It is only through faith that you receive that amazing fact. You cannot buy it, you only receive it.
Romans 6:5 “If we have been united in the likeness of his death, then we shall also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.” The important point is that without the first stage of unity there is no unity in the second stage of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is of no effect that we die alone on the cross. The power of sin is not broken, there is no resurrection, it just ends in death, and you will be judged by God forever along with the devil. Our single death on the cross is worthless in the eyes of God.
The darkness of our lives is also included in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our problem solving is all there. The truth is simple and clear. Apply all your negative items by faith to the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. All that is in you that responds to darkness has ended in the death of Jesus Christ. Everything in you that responds to the bright begins anew in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. You have changed your identity, position, and existence through Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come.