Our Nature When I speak of our “nature,” I am referring to our hard-wired inherited traits. When we were born of the flesh, we inherited our traits from Adam. Therefore, though not everyone sinned in the same way as Adam (see Romans 5:14), all are sinful right from the start. It is the default state…
New Creation By the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, I was given His eternal life.Ephesians 2:8 (NLT) “God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God.” My cold hard heart was circumcised out of me and replaced by a…
You Are Dead to Sin Christ died to sin once and He can never die again. The same thing is true of you. The instant you believed on Jesus, your old sinful nature inherited from Adam died with Him and you were raised with God’s righteous nature. So don’t allow sin to rule in your…
Being Born Again We talk about being born again, but it’s easy to see that phrase as just a “Christianese” way of saying we’re saved and going to heaven. It’s much more than that. Being born again is being born of the Spirit of God. When that happens, the change is profound. In 1 John…
