Rom 6:4 (Baptism/Death)

Rom 6:3 (Continuation)-Death

“Therefore we are buried with Him in baptism into death…”

I found some more stuff as I was studying tonight that I just couldn’t get away from sharing.

(I’m gonna put a plug in here for those of you that REALLY love the Word and want to gain more understanding on what the Word of God really says…I talk about it a lot, but I’m going to say it again because it has helped me sooooo much. If you can afford to spend persay $40 at a time, here and there, buy online a Jimmy Swaggart Bible Commentary! The only one that we have right now is the book of Romans and I am SO VERY thankful for it. He explains things in a way that really help it to make much more sense to me and others I know that have used them. Excellent study tools!)

ok, anyhoo, this explanation opened up for my in mind what actually happened throught Christ’s death. (I’ve heard the death, burial, and resurrection taught on, but never explained to THIS EXTENT). Bro Swaggart says, “Whenever the sinner has FAITH in what Christ did at Calvary, in effect, the Father places that sinner IN CHRIST at the time of the Death of the Son of God, and in the Mind of God when Jesus paid the price, it was the same as the sinner paying the price, although in fact, it was no way for him to pay such except through Christ.”

I like that explanation, because I never thought about it this way. I know that I could have never bled and died on the Cross, I understood that part, I think anyone could. The part I didn’t grasp so strongly was that this was a debt higher than I could pay. It’s as though I owe the bank $900 trillian dollars, and that is the price of my wrongdoing. There is NO WAY that I can EVER pay that! Not even in a lifetime could I amass that kind of money, let alone to pay that kind of debt. And it’s as though a man walked into the bank, payed the debt in cash and came out and gave me the receipt for the transaction that I didn’t make, and said, “I payed it, you owe them nothing.” There is no way I could pay the debt, no way I can pay the man back for doing the favor for me…and although $900 trillian is a huge sum of money, that is NOTHING compared to the debt we owe God for our sin. Nothing!

The thing that we neglect to realize, is that God demands perfection, which we could never achieve ourselves. Only Christ could do this for us. There is nothing we can add to the Cross of Christ, and nothing that we can take away from it. Everything that we receive in life (if we are walking with God), is through the Cross of Christ and faith in what He did for us. I’ve heard many say that it is in your tithing, or prayer time, intercession, fastings, church attendence, it’s not even in the fact that you received the baptism of the Holy Ghost…the power is not in that without the Cross. It is ALL made possible through what Jesus did at Calvary.

C. Lincoln states it like this: “The entire purpose of Calvary was for Jesus to take the place of sinners, die in the place of sinners, be buried in the place of sinners, and through simple faith in His sacrificial offering award mankind with all of the benefits of children of God. It must always be remembered that Jesus did all that He did for US and not at all for Himself. Heaven did not need Calvary. God did not need Calvary. It was fallen man who needed Calvary.”