Everlasting Life
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Romans 8:2, when correctly read, is
a most blessed passage of Scripture. To get the sense we should place a dash
between the words “Spirit” and “of.” Thus it would read: “For the law of the
Spirit — of life in Christ Jesus, hath made me free from the law of sin and
death.”
When a sinner places his trust in
Christ as Savior he is justified before the bar of God, because Christ’s death
and righteousness are imputed to him. This is a judicial matter.
But at the same moment something
else happens: the Spirit regenerates and gives new life (Titus. 3:5). This is a
law, an inexorable, unchangeable law. The sinner who sincerely places his trust
in Christ as Savior is given life by the Holy Spirit. It is always so; it is
never otherwise.
I John 5:12 says: “He that hath the
Son hath life….” John 3:36 says that “He that believeth on the Son hath
everlasting life” and Colossians 3:3 declares that the believer’s life is “hid with
Christ in God.”
Thus the Apostle could say: “The law
of the Spirit, [that of] life in Christ, hath made me free from the law of sin
and death.” Adam forfeited his life by sin, but the believer’s new life can
never be forfeited, for this life is nothing less than the life of Christ, in
whom the believer now stands perfect and complete before God.
It is a law, a fixed unchangeable
law, that sin brings forth death (Romans 5:12; 6:23; et al). This is called
“the law of sin and death,” but the believer has already died for sin in Christ
and has been given new life by the Spirit. Thus “the law of the Spirit,” that
of “life in Christ,” has made the simplest believer “free from the law of sin
and death.”
Thank God for “the law of the
Spirit,” everlasting life through the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for our sins.
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How
God Saves Men
Believing
Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing
Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read
Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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