DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES #994/ EMBRACING THE HEART OF THE FATHER WITH DR. GEORGE WATKINS

DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES

 

As I'm reading the eighth chapter of Romans again today, I have a flashback to my childhood and the games we played. As an all-American boy, I always carried my cap gun with me. And the dream of most of the boys in the 50s was they would have loved to be a cowboy or Davy Crockett.

Somewhere through most days, we would have a shoot-out with some imaginary enemy. One day it would be the Pirates; the next day, the renegade Indians or just robbers stealing our stuff.

The magic of those imaginary battles was that whenever I was shot moments later, I jumped up from the ground and yelled, "new man." Then, that new man would jump right back into the battle.

I thought of that again as the scripture tells us that our old man is dead. When Jesus died on the cross, we died with him because we were in him. So that when he rose from the dead, we also rose to newness of life.

Indeed we are a new man in Christ.

The wonderful byproduct of all that has taken place is that our body now has no dominion over us; therefore, sin does not reign in our mortal bodies. 

Unfortunately, sin and the subject there has become a cottage industry for the Church. Much of the focus that comes from our theologians, i.e., teachers and preachers, is overly focused on sin; things we should not do, and what the sins are.

As a young Pentecostal Christian, it was very simplified for me because they gave us a detailed list of the sins. We didn't need the Holy Ghost to convict us; all we had to do was read the list. 

Paul reveals to us in Romans eight that we have been freed from the tyrant of sin and are duty-bound to live in the sunshine of righteousness.

 

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