The one who really believes in God, died with Christ Jesus. For the
apostle Paul wrote: "If One died for
all, therefore all have died" (Galatians 2:20).
When Jesus Christ died and rose again, in the eyes of God, all believers
have died and have risen with Him. Therefore we no longer live for ourselves
but for Him who died and has risen for us.
Thus, not only that "Jesus Christ died for our sins" as we can
be forgiven, but also that "He died
that we might live no longer for us, but for Him" (2Corinthians 5:15). We all can enjoy God's forgiveness because Jesus Christ died for our
sins, and this is just one side of the death of Christ. But how many of us can
enjoy the other side? Christ died for us, that we should no longer live for
ourselves but for Him.
Brethren, we are not of those who will take advantage of the death of
Jesus Christ, only to be forgiven. Do not neglect the purpose for which Christ
died. If you continue to live in sin, it means that you live for yourself, but
not for Christ. If we are self-centred we can not have a Christ-centric life.
Satan's purpose is to make us blind to the truth of God. But if we still
understand that Christ died for our sins, and then Satan is trying to blind
your eyes and not to see the full view of the death of Jesus Christ.
As long as we live for ourselves, we will not have victory over sin. So
we will not be able to fully enjoy the death of Jesus Christ.
Most people make decisions in their life, proceeding from the
perspective of self-centred life "What do I have (or my family has) out of
this? Certain, this self-centred life is the root of the sin in our lives. But
Jesus died for us, to deliver us from it.
So, let us take a decision today, from now onward, I will not take any self-centred
decisions, to not ask myself what do I have out of this? But rather to ask: how
it will glorify God? How this will help the Kingdom of God?
