According to The Scriptures

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“For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to…​

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“But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming, then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power.” (1 Corinthians 15:3-5,20-24 NASB1995)​

Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary. Since he was not born of man, he was not born with a sin nature, as we are, and he never sinned. When he lived on the earth he was both fully God and fully man (God incarnate), for he is the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And he is our creator God who formed us in the wombs of our mothers. And, although not in bodily form at that time, he was with the people of Israel in the Old Testament times. He was the spiritual rock from which they drank.

During his years of ministry on the earth he healed the sick and afflicted, raised the dead, comforted the sorrowful, fed the hungry, delivered people from demons, and he performed many other miracles. And he also preached that to have salvation from our sins and eternal life with God that, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in him, we must die with him to sin and be raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness, in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands. And many rejected him.

The religious leaders in the temple and in the synagogues of that time were mostly against Jesus, and a group of them harassed him continually, trying to find ways that they could trip him up with his words in order to accuse him of wrongdoing. For they hated him for what he taught, and for proclaiming himself to be God, which is who he was/is. And they hated him because he confronted them with their sins and with their hypocrisy, and they were jealous of him because of his temporary popularity among the people, so they plotted and carried out his death on a cross via the Romans.

In Jesus’ death on that cross he put our sins to death with him so that we might now die with him to sin and now live to him and to his righteousness in walks of obedience to his commands. For he taught that if anyone would come after him, he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if we are denying self, putting sin to death daily, by the Spirit, and we are walking (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to him, then we have salvation from sin and eternal life in him.

So, even though as humans we are born into this world with sin natures, in the image of Adam, destined to die in our sins, we can be reborn of God via God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, but of God. We can die with him to sin and be raised with him to walk with him in fellowship with him in living holy lives, pleasing to him, for his will and for his good pleasure. One day he will return for his faithful ones and we will be with him for eternity, if we have continued with him in these walks of faith in obedience to his commands. Our salvation, then complete.

[Is 53:1-12; Mat 7:21-23; Mat 26:26-29; Lu 9:23-26; Lu 17:25; Jn 1:1-36; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 8:24,58; Jn 10:27-33; Jn 20:28-29; Rom 5:8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-17; Rom 9:5; Rom 11:22; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 1 Co 11:23-32; 1 Co 15:1-8; 2 Co 5:15,21; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-24; Php 2:5-11; Col 2:6-9; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 1:8-9; Heb 2:14-15; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-15; 1 Pet 1:20-21; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Pet 1:1; 1 Jn 2:28; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

"My God and I"

Music & Lyrics: Austris A. Wihtol, 1932

My God and I go in the fields together,
We walk and talk as good friends should and do;
We clasp our hands, our voices ring with laughter,
My God and I walk through the meadow's hue.

He tells me of the years that went before me,
When heavenly plans were made for me to be;
When all was but a dream of dim conception,
To come to life, earth's verdant glory see.

My God and I will go for aye together,
We'll walk and talk as good friends should and do;
This earth will pass, and with it common trifles,
But God and I will go unendingly.

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According to The Scriptures
An Original Work / April 19, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love