United in Death & Raised to New Life, Part 2 (TMF:1585)

Friday, April 09, 2021
Peace to Live By: United in Death & Raised to New Life, Part 2 (TMF:1585) - Daniel Litton
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       You see, when each of us became a Christian, when each of us was born again, we were united with Christ is his death. The only problem is, how is this possible? Well, one way to look at it is that, at the time we believed in Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins, at that very moment in which we believed, it is as if God himself, acting as Doc Brown, came to us, and we, as Marty, got into the Delorean time machine with him, and he took us back to 30 A.D. or so, at the very moment in which Christ was dying on the cross, and somehow united us with Christ in his death. And not only this, but he united us with him in burial, and then, of course, his resurrection from the dead. And then God brings up back to the exact moment of which we left, in the present time, and drops us back off as if we never left. And he flys away in the Delorean. That’s pretty much what Paul is trying to convey to us here.