Comments on: Resurrection a way of life? http://www.italker.org.uk/2009/04/resurrection-a-way-of-life/ Life, as seen from Bo'ness Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:55:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: iTalker http://www.italker.org.uk/2009/04/resurrection-a-way-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-541 iTalker Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:03:11 +0000 http://blog.standonline.org.uk/italker/?p=903#comment-541 Yeah James to summarise all this, Paul is saying Christ died for me and i died with him. Thus the demands of the law are satisfied. However Christ rose again and lives. The power of the Spirit also causes me to live because I now live in Christ. (My idenity is no longer me but Christ living in me.) Therefore justifiacation by faith in Christ enhances our understanding of the Grace of God. However when we seek to justify ourselves through the law, be it saying prayers, attending prayer meetings, buying prayer cards or seeking the prayers of the saints, or the acceptance of others, rather than God himself, then we are setting aside the grace of God for our own righteousness or the righteousness of others, ( an impossible idea since no one is righteous but God.) So i say hang in there hold to Grace and make Grace the driver of your gratitude and generosity to god and his people. Yeah James to summarise all this, Paul is saying Christ died for me and i died with him. Thus the demands of the law are satisfied. However Christ rose again and lives. The power of the Spirit also causes me to live because I now live in Christ. (My idenity is no longer me but Christ living in me.) Therefore justifiacation by faith in Christ enhances our understanding of the Grace of God.

However when we seek to justify ourselves through the law, be it saying prayers, attending prayer meetings, buying prayer cards or seeking the prayers of the saints, or the acceptance of others, rather than God himself, then we are setting aside the grace of God for our own righteousness or the righteousness of others, ( an impossible idea since no one is righteous but God.) So i say hang in there hold to Grace and make Grace the driver of your gratitude and generosity to god and his people.

]]> By: James Hogg http://www.italker.org.uk/2009/04/resurrection-a-way-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-540 James Hogg Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:11:51 +0000 http://blog.standonline.org.uk/italker/?p=903#comment-540 I think fact that the self is dead, I find that most liberating. That I do not have to live up to my unattainable ideals and dreams but that I live through Christ, that He gives me what I need, through His grace, to succeed according to his will. That I do not have to worry about myself. I am my most content when I put my cares onto him and can only do through having "been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me" I think fact that the self is dead, I find that most liberating. That I do not have to live up to my unattainable ideals and dreams but that I live through Christ, that He gives me what I need, through His grace, to succeed according to his will. That I do not have to worry about myself. I am my most content when I put my cares onto him and can only do through having “been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me”

]]> By: Gordon Kennedy http://www.italker.org.uk/2009/04/resurrection-a-way-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-539 Gordon Kennedy Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:31:30 +0000 http://blog.standonline.org.uk/italker/?p=903#comment-539 Yes! God's Kingdom has started now the King in God's Kingdom is risen. The Resurrection of the Lord Jesus calls us all to increasingly live the new life of God's Kingdom, while putting to death the old life of the old kingdom(s). Jesus makes everything new at Easter time. Yes!

God’s Kingdom has started now the King in God’s Kingdom is risen.

The Resurrection of the Lord Jesus calls us all to increasingly live the new life of God’s Kingdom, while putting to death the old life of the old kingdom(s).

Jesus makes everything new at Easter time.

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