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WE OFFER THE MEMBERS OF OUR BODY TO SIN EVERY DAY, WE DO IT IN THOUGHTS OUR ACTIONS. BASICALLY OUR ACTIONS DETERMINES WHO WE REALLY SERVE, THE WORD OF GOD SAID THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND. HENCE EVERYTHING WE DO THAT IS NOT OF GOD E.G LYING STEALING BACKBITING EACH OTHER JUST BEING APART OF ANY THING UNGODLY TELLS THAT YOU GIVES YOUR BODY YOUR SELF TO THE DEVIL. TO OFFER THE MEMBERS OF YOUR BODY TO GOD MULITIPLE TIMES IN A DAY TAKES FAITH AND A WHOLE LOT OF TRUST, WHEN WE SERVE JESUS CHRIST OUR HANDS OUR WORDS OUR HEART OUR VERY SMILE BECOMES A WEAPON IN THE CAUSE OF THE KINGDOM.AND A GREAT DEAL OF TALKING TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, I AM TALKING ABOUT PRAYER. IT DEVELOPES A RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. BY NATURE WE SIN EVERYDAY THATS IS OUR NATURE,WE ARE NOT PERFECT,BUT BECAUSE OF THE REDEEMING LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST WE HAVE BEEN BOUGHT WITH A PRICE, WE NOW CAN COME TO THE FATHER THROUGH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST,TO BE FORGIVEN AND TO BE MADE FREE SIN CANNOT DOMINATE US ANY MORE.

THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD ''REIGN'' MEANS TO EXERCISE AUTHORITY, TO DOMINATE ONE LIFE. PAUL SAID THAT SIN REIGN IN OUR MORTAL BODY, THERFORE WHEN WE WERE ENEMY WITH CHRIST SIN DOMINATE OUR LIVES, WE WERE SLAVE TO SIN WE WOULD GIVE IN TO THE DESIRE OF OUR SINFUL FLESH. BECAUSE OUR MORTAL BODY COMES INTO OBEDIENCE TO SIN IT AUTOMATICAL OBEYS THE BODY EVIL DESIRE. ACTUALLY WE ARE BEING CONTROLLED BY THE DEVIL.

TO ''RECKON, CONSIDER, COUNT, MEANS TO LOOK INTO ONE SELF, TO EVALUATE AND ESTIMATE LOOK UPON AS CONSIDER. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE ARE CONVINCING OURSELVES OF SOMETHING THAT IS NOT TRUE. THE EFFECT IN OUR LIVES IS THAT WE WILL SPEND ETERNITY WITH OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. HE DID DIED FOR THE SINS OF THIS WORLD AND I BELIEVE THAT WITH ALL MY HEART, NOTHING CAN CHANGE THAT.

OUR ''BODY OF SIN'' OUR ''FLESH'' OUR OLD NATURE HAS BEEN MADE POWERLESS BECAUSE OF OUR CRUCIFIXION WITH CHRIST, BECAUSE CHRIST DEATH ON THE CROSS BROKE THE POWER OF BONDAGE OF SIN UPON US.THE CROSS MADE THAT POSSIBLE.THANKS TO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER WHO LOVES US SO MUCH. THE DIFFERENCE THIS UNDERSTANDING MAKE IN OUR STRUGGLES AGAINST TEMPTATION IS THAT SIN DOES NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER US WE ARE NOW UNITED WITH CHRIST THROUGH BAPTISM, WE HAVE NOW BECOME PART OF THE DEATH AND THE VICTORY OF THE CROSS.

PAUL IS REFERRING TO ACTUAL DEATH. PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT OUR DEATH. THIS DEATH BECOMES OUR OWN IN THE SENSE WHERE WE CAME TO AFAITH IN CHRIST AND BAPTIZE INTO UNION WITH CHRIST.WE ARE UNITED WITH CHRIST IN HIS DEATH AND IN HIS BURIALAND ALSO IN HIS RESURRECTION. I REALLY DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS THEOLOGICAL MUMBO-JUMBO, BUT WHAT I KNOW IS THIS IT DOES HAVE SOME BASIC IN REALITY, IS THAT CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS FOR ME,SO WHEN I CAME INTO CONTACT WITH JESUS I WAS NO LONGER A SLAVE TO SIN, SIN HAS NO DOMINION OVER ME ANYMORE, I AM FREE THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS.

BURIED CORRESPOND TO IN THE ACT OF BAPTISM AS A WAY IN WHICH SIN IS NOW BURIED ,OUR OLD LIFE IS NOW DEAD,AND WE ARE JOINED , IN UNION WITH CHRIST, CHRIST NOW BEING THE HEAD OVER US. CHRIST BEING RAISED FROM THE DEAD'' CORRESPOND WITH THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD ,THE BIBLE SAYS THAT IN BAPTISM,WE NOW BECOME APART OF JESUS CHRIST WE ARE NOW RAISED WITH HIM, THERE IS A DIFFERENT LIFE,WE HAVE NOW TAKEN ON,WE NOW BEGIN TO DEMONSTRATE CHRIST LIKE ATTITUDE. NOW THAT WE ARE RAISED WITH HIM. EVERYTHING WE DO MUST BE DONE WITH CHRIST IN MIND, WE NOW REPRESENT HIM CHRIST,ITS NOT ABOUT US ANY MORE. T HEREFORE WITH BURIED IN BAPTISM SIMPLE MEANS GOING UNDER THE WATER. CHRIST RAISED MEANS COMING UP FROM THE WATER.

WE HAVE BECOME UNITED WITH CHRIST THROUGH BAPTISM,DEMONSTRATING TO THE WORLD THAT WE ARE ONE WITH CHRIST. WE HAVE CHOOSE TO SPENT ETERNITY WITH GOD. SO THEREFORE BEING BAPTISE SHOWS HIS DEATH AND HIS RESSURECTION WITH CHRIST BEING IDENTIFIED WITH HIM. BAPTISM SYMBOLIZES OUR UNION THAT WE ARE BAPTISED INTO CHRIST DEATH, IT ALSO SYMBOLISES HIS RESSURECTION HENCE WE ARE BURIED WITH CHRIST THROUGH BAPTISM AND RAISE WITH HIM IN THE RESSURECTION WE ARE JOINED WITH CHRIST THROUGH BAPTISM, THIS SYMBOLISES OUR UNION WITH THE LORD JESUS.

WE MOVED FROM BEING UNDER THE HEADSHIP OF ADAM TO THE HEADSHIP OF CHRIST,WHEN GOD IN HIS LOVE FOR HUMAN KIND SEND JESUS HIS ONLY SON TO DIED ON CALVARY CROSS,FOR THE SINS OF THIS WORLD. WHEN CHRIST WENT ON THE CROSS EVERYTHING CHANGE FOR MANKIND,WE WERE NOW REDEEMED. CHRIST NOW BECOMES OUR HEADSHIP. TO BRING ABOUT THIS CHANGE, IN HEADSHIP WE MUST ACCEPT JESUS AS OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR SHOW THE WORLD THAT WE ARE HIS DISCIPLES BY BATIZING AND SHOWING THE WORLD THAT WE FOLLW JESUS CHRIST. THE IMPLICATION OF US HAVING DIED WITH CHRIST IS THAT WE BECOME APART OF CHRIST, WE ARE NOW JOIN HEIR WITH HIM WE HAVE A CHANCE TO SPEND ETERNITY WITH CHRIST.

ADAM REPRESENT ALL HUMANKIND BECAUSE ADAM WAS THE FRIST MAN, ON EARTH WHEN ADAM SIN, THE CONSEQUENCE OF ADAM SIN FALL ON ALL HUMAN KIND SO THEREFORE WE ARE BORN ON ACCOUNT OF OUR ORIGIN FROM ADAM. THEREFORE WHEN ADAM SIN WE BECAME APART OF THE CONSEQUENCE OF ADAM SIN. CHRIST BECOME HEAD OF ALL WHO BECOME HIS DISCIPLES , FOR THE MERE FACT THAT CHRIST CAME AS THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB, HE DIED FOR OUR SINS ON A CROSS, SO THAT WE WHO BELIEVED IN HIM WOULD HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. CHRIST WAS THE SECOND ADAM, WHO IN OBEDIENCE TO HIS FATHER TOOK ON THE SINS OF THIS WORLD. CHRIST IS NOW OUR ADVOCATE BETWEEN US AND GOD. NOW HE IS THE HEAD OF ALL DISCIPLES BECAUSE OF THE CROSS. IF CHRIST IS NOT OUR REPRESENTATIVE OR HEAD HIS DEATH FOR SINS CANNOT BE EFFECTIVE FOR US, BECAUSE WE WOULD NOT HAVE BELIEVE AND TRUST IN HIM SO HIS DEATH WOULD NOT BE EFFECTIVE AT ALL. BUT THANK GOD HE IS THE HEAD.

PAUL IS NOT TEACHING THAT EVERYONE WILL BE SAVED.ADAM SIN AFFECTS ALL,WHO ARE PART OF THE HUMAN RACE CHRIST RIGHTEOUSNESS IS FOR ALL WHO ARE A PART OF HIS SPIRITUAL RACE. YES THERE CAN BE SIN WITHOUT LAW. ''TRESPASS INCREASE'' WHEN THE LAW IS PRESENT. SIMPLE SAID THAT THE LAW COMES IN TO PLACE TO ALLOWMEN SINS TO BE SEEN AND TO STAND OUT IN FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS.

I CAN START BY SAYING THAT THE FAMILY IS ONE WHICH THE FATHER OR MOTHER MAKES DECISIONS THAT AFFECTS THE ENTIRE FAMILY. ALSO PRESIDENTS AND PRIME MINISTERS DO MAKE DECISION AS A SINGLE PERSON THAT AFFECTS NATION. YOU ALSO FINDS THIS IN THE MILITARY AS WELL.THE WAYS THESE MEMBERS ARE TIED TO THIS PERSON ARE AS FOLLOWS ; THEY ARE MEMBERS OF THE SAME FAMILY, ALSO THE PEOPLE LIVES IN THE COUNTRIES THAT THESE PEOPLE GOVER.

RECONCILIATION MEANS TO RE-ESTABLISH A BROKEN RELATIONSHIP WITH SOMEONE.RECONCILIATION WITH GOD IS NECESSARY BECAUSE WE NEED TO COMMUNICATE WITH GOD THROUGH PARYER SO WE CAN CONTINUE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD OUR FATHER. WHEN WE WERE ENEMY WITH GOD HE SEND HIS SON TO DIED FOR US INORDER TO SAVE US, JESUS NOW IS MAKING INTERCESSION FOR US TO HIS FATHER.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO EMBRACE THE TRUTH THAT CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY, BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAY THAT WHEN WE STILL YET WITHOUT STRENGHTH CHRIST DIE FOR THE UNGODLY, THE WORD OF GOD SAID IT, AND WE SHOULD REALLY EMBRACE THIS TRUTH,WHEN WE WERE POWERLESS , WEAK, CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY. IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT CHRIST DIED FOR SINNERS AS WELL, HE DID NOT DIED FOR THE RIGHTEOUS OR THE VERY GOOD PEOPLE, WE ARE SINNERS AND THATS AS SIMPLE AS IT GET, WE WERE LOST, CHRIST DIED ON A CROSS FOR US HE WAS THAT SACRIFICIAL LAMB. CHRIST DIED FOR US WHEN WE WERE AT OUR WORST. WELL WE KNOW AS CHILDREN OF GOD THAT THE DEVIL IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF IT. THE WORD OF GOD SAID THAT HE WILL FORGIVE US OF OUR SINS AND WILL REMEMBER THEM NO MORE.

WE SHOULD REJOICE IN OUR SUFFERING AND TRIBULATIONS BECAUSE WE HAVE A VERY SURE FUTURE THAT WE WILL BE WITH CHRIST SOME DAY. THE IMPORTANCE TO OUR LIVES OF ; PERSEVERANCE BEING ABLE TO ENDURE HARDSHIPS, FACING SOME REAL DIFFICULT TIMES, YET INSPITE OF ALL THESE TO BE ABLE TO HOLD ON TO YOUR FAITH TRUSTING GOD IN EVERTHING. TRIED CHARACTER THIS IS WHEN YOU ARE GOING THROUGH A TESTING PERIOD IN ONE LIFE, THE EXPERIENCE OF GOING THROUGH THESE TOUGH TIMES WHERE YOUR INTEGRITY IS BEING TESTED, BUT THROUGH IT YOU ARE ABLE TO STAND. HOPE-----THIS IS WHEN DESPITE WHAT ANYONE SAY. YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING,YOU KNOW WHY WE ARE HOLDING ON THERE IS THIS DETERMINATION TO GO ON , NO TRIBULATION WILL ALTER THAT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING CALLED HOPE.

FOR ABRAHAM THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAITH AND JUSTIFICATION WAS THAT ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD AND TRUST IN GOD. SO IT WAS ABRAHAM FAITH THAT ALLOWS ABRAHAM TO BE JUSTIFY THROUGH FAITH. FOR US THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAITH AND JUSTIFICATION IS BASISCALLY THE SAME, BECAUSE IT IS THROUGH FAITH THAT WE CAN COME TO GOD,WE WERE ACTUALLY ENEMY WITH GOD. BUT THROUGH HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS,THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND US WERE NOW CHANGE, THROUGH FAITH WE ARE NOW JUSTIFIED, WE NOW BELIEVE AND TRUST IN GOD. TO BE JUSTIFIED MEANS TO BE FREE,BEING AQUITED OF ALL CHARGES.