Word for the Day May 12
Evang. Cascille Hammack
"We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us
who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were therefore buried with Him through baptism
that into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a
new life." Romans 6:2-4
Without giving Christ your entire life
and dying completely to yourself, you can not be born again. 1 John 3:4-10 says if people keep on sinning they are not
true believers. Yet there are leaders who preach the contrary. God requires that we be holy. Without holiness
no one will see the Lord. Romans 6:18 says, "You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness."
You have not been set free from sin if you have not died to yourself and given your life to Him. The Lord will allow
those into heaven who have not stained their garments. Rev. 16:15 Jesus said, "Behold, I come like a
thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully
exposed."
There is no other way to know the Lord other than dying to self. Jesus explains
this in John 12:24,25, "I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat fall to the ground and dies, it remains only a
single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who
hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." There is only one way to be born again, and that is
to die. Jesus proclaimed in John 3:3, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born
again."