RAISED UP WITH HIM

Biblical teachings from scripture reveal that we are saved by grace through faith. That there is no work we can do, or action that we can initiate that will result in our salvation. It is the work of God. Having said this, I must tell you that there is a prerequisite; You must believe!

Your belief shakes hands with faith, and through this strong bond, His grace is bestowed on you. Our Lord is so very merciful, so much so that He gave His own Son to be crucified and His blood shed so that we might be set free of the prison of sin and the sentence of eternal death. From death, God raised Jesus up from the grave, and as it is written in Ephesians 2:6...and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Just before Jesus went to His earthly death for us, He prayed to the Father of all, a prayer on our behalf;

Joh 17:24 "Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

In the eyes of the Father, each one of us is hidden in the body of Christ Jesus. God no longer sees us individually, He sees instead His Son - Eph 5:30 because we are members of His body.

Col 1:18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. Col 2:10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority.

Heb 2:14-15 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, (15) and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.

Our mortal flesh has an expiration date. The piddly little 70, 80, or 90 years we tread the earth is insignificant when compared to eternity! God gives us seven, eight or nine decades to get our acts together and realize that He created a path for us to overcome the sentence of death caused by Adam's fall.

1Co 15:53-54 For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. (54) But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, "DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory.

John, the Apostle that "Jesus Loved" recorded the following when The Lord Jesus began to give him HIS Revelation to be shared with His servants;

Rev 1:17-18 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, (18) and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?