Entombed Will Be Set Free
“We, then, were entombed together with Him through baptism into death, that, even as Christ was roused from among the dead through the glory of the Father, thus we also should be walking in newness of life. For if we have become planted together in the likeness of His death, nevertheless we shall be of the resurrection also...for in that He died, He died to Sin once for all, yet in that He is living, He is living to God. Thus you also, be reckoning yourselves to be dead, indeed, to Sin, yet living to God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.” (Romans 6:4-11)
Paul is not talking about water baptism but identification with Christ in his death. I heard someone say that “you cannot reform a corpse”. We cannot, but God can and will make all corpses into a new creation...not reformed, but NEW...
“...if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here!...may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.” (2 Corinthians 5:17: Galatians 6:14-15)
Our only hope is this new creation and it is by faith believers are “reckoning” ourselves to already be that new creation in Christ. And the Bible says that we can and should live as though God has already raised us up to this promised new, immortal, newness of life.
"Let not Sin, then, be reigning in your mortal body, for you to be obeying its lusts. Nor yet be presenting your members, as implements of injustice, to sin, but present yourselves to God as if alive from among the dead, and your members as implements of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be lording it over you, for you are not under law, but under GRACE." (Romans 6:12-14)
The "wages of sin is death", and God is righteous in putting we sinners to death. But the Grace of God raising the sinner into an immortal, new creation is also righteous...
“The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6:23)
If the Bible is the Word of God, then the Grace of God has guaranteed that all sinners will be resurrected into a new creation following death. All are included in the Grace of God, but only believers are comforted by the promise....
“...we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word...the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
We will all be "entombed" and we will all be set free!
Paul is not talking about water baptism but identification with Christ in his death. I heard someone say that “you cannot reform a corpse”. We cannot, but God can and will make all corpses into a new creation...not reformed, but NEW...
“...if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here!...may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.” (2 Corinthians 5:17: Galatians 6:14-15)
Our only hope is this new creation and it is by faith believers are “reckoning” ourselves to already be that new creation in Christ. And the Bible says that we can and should live as though God has already raised us up to this promised new, immortal, newness of life.
"Let not Sin, then, be reigning in your mortal body, for you to be obeying its lusts. Nor yet be presenting your members, as implements of injustice, to sin, but present yourselves to God as if alive from among the dead, and your members as implements of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be lording it over you, for you are not under law, but under GRACE." (Romans 6:12-14)
The "wages of sin is death", and God is righteous in putting we sinners to death. But the Grace of God raising the sinner into an immortal, new creation is also righteous...
“The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6:23)
If the Bible is the Word of God, then the Grace of God has guaranteed that all sinners will be resurrected into a new creation following death. All are included in the Grace of God, but only believers are comforted by the promise....
“...we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word...the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
We will all be "entombed" and we will all be set free!