Holiness with joy

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: The Apostle Paul talks about the importance of identifying with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ through baptism. He emphasizes the need for believers to die to their old ways and live a holy life, free from sin. This new life in Christ includes the concept of freedom from the empty rituals of religion, death to sin, submission to the authority of Christ, and presenting our bodies and lives to God as instruments of righteousness. The call to holiness and sanctification is crucial for believers to live a life that pleases the Lord and points out sin in the world.

The Christian's death to sin includes resurrection, which brings freedom from empty religious rituals, spiritual authority, and freedom from ties such as addictions and emotional illnesses. Christians should not live a mediocre life, but understand that they are seated with Christ in heavenly places and have great power. Christ has freed us from all sin and gives us a way out of temptation. Christians should not adjust to sin, but always seek the way out that Christ provides.

Christ always provides a way out of temptation and sin. We should not adjust to sin and there are three levels of sanctification in the new life in Christ: putting off bad things, working on little sins, and putting on the new man. We should set our sights on things above and seek the things of Christ.

Let's go to the word of the Lord, brothers, in the Epistle to the Romans in chapter 6, Romans chapter 6, please. Rather than continue with chapter 7, I felt we should dwell on chapter 6 a bit more and continue to elaborate on this idea.

I think also the preaching last Sunday by Andrew Comiskey made me pause a bit longer, and conversations I've had throughout the week about God's call to the Church, that process of sanctification and greater surrender of our lives to the Lord and fully embracing and integrating the called by God through that process of death that occurs in the believer when he receives Christ, when he is symbolically baptized into the death of Jesus, and then lives as people who have been raised from the dead, which means a life of holiness, a life of good works, a life... of fruits of righteousness. The importance of the Church at this time in history when the world is moving more and more in the opposite direction to the holiness that God calls for, and the values of the kingdom of God, if the Church is going to point out sin in the world, you had better settle your affairs within your own home, and we in God's people face in a serious way God's call to holiness.