Dead to Sin; Alive to Christ

Truth Community Church

Don Green | Cincinnati, Ohio

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Dead to Sin; Alive to Christ

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014

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You who have believed in Christ have been raised from the dead. You were once without faith and without feeling. You had no sense of sin; you had no desire after holiness; you had no confidence in Christ; you had no love for the Father: but “you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.”

Why should the Lord of life have raised you from your death? Multitudes around you are still dead. You could not have made yourselves alive; for it is clear that the dead cannot rise by their own power.

You were like the dry bones of Ezekiel’s valley, without the form or moisture of life. You were more difficult to quicken than your Savior’s body; for “he saw no corruption,” but you were corrupt of heart. Ah, how much you saw of corruption! In you hath Jehovah repeated the miracle which he performed on his beloved Son.

Remember that quickening is a needful part of the process of sanctification. Sanctification, in its operation upon our character, consists of three things.

First, we die unto sin. A wondrous death! By this Jesus strikes at the heart of evil. The death of Christ makes us die to sin.

After this comes burial. We are buried with Christ. Covered up to be forgotten, we are to sin as a dead shepherd to his flock. As the sheep pass over the dead shepherd’s grave, so our old sins and habits come about us, but we, as dead men, know them no more. We are buried to them.

To complete our actual sanctification we receive heavenly quickening. “If we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.” Yea, we do live in him, and by him, for “he that believeth in him hath everlasting life.”

Have you been thus dead, thus buried with Christ? Are you now thus quickened in the likeness of his resurrection? This is your joyful privilege, if you are indeed believers in Christ, and joined unto the Lord in one spirit.

~ Charles Spurgeon

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