Waiting can be hard sometimes, whether it is the big test, a shipment in the mail, or good news. When you are waiting in Christ, there are some things you should wait on and others you should not.

⚠️Do not wait ⚠️

You could be an epic antagonist super villain, with all of the world's 🌎 worst habits. The biggest lie you could ever believe is that you cannot come to Christ. The second biggest lie is that you need to get your life together before you can come to Christ. He tells you to come to Him even if you don't feel worthy. Sometimes I have to ask God to give me the desire to do the right thing. Come to Jesus NOW.

Do wait

Everything else 😂.

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Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, "Which," He said, "you heard of from Me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."”
Acts 1:4-5 NASB

What were these disciples instructed to do after the Lord left them?
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What were they waiting for?
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Jesus taught the disciples, the disciples taught their generation, their generation taught others, and here we are still today.

Would you like to enjoy the opportunity and responsibility of sharing the gift 🎁 our Father promised?

• Yes 👍
• No 👎

Are you being patient and waiting on the Lord before acting too hastily?

With every day life decisions big or small?
With spiritual matters?
With Ministry?

• Yes 👍
• No 👎 ​

Do not rush off into anything unprepared, in everything that we do, we should not carry on in the strength of our flesh. The only way we can be a true witness through our lives is under the control of the Holy Spirit who energizes us.

To remind me what I look like before and after. A lot of success stories revolve around burning the midnight oil and coffee seances in the morning. The reward is looking back at where you began and reveling in how far you have come.


Have you learned how to recognize where your strength stops and someone else's begins? Most of us don't play well with others, most of that is because of personality differences. Another part of it is power distribution dysfunction. Our society produces Alpha introverts and extroverts. The word community suggests a commune of unity where there is give-and-take. In this day and age we do more of gatherings where people with similar interests come together under one roof to participate in their interest individually.


Try it this week. It doesn't even have to be a big project. Try participating in a co-op that involves two sets of hands or more. Try keeping your mouth shut for a moment. Try taking instruction, try being available to learn something. Try being told your idea may not best suit this occasion . Try resisting the urge of preserving your ego. Try making a suggestion because it is helpful to the cause and not to prove your worth. Not easy.


Brb.. someone literally just gave me a command without saying please. After a violent skirmish with my pride, I consented kindly.
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Fred - 1
egotistical anarchy- 0


In Galatians 2:20 two people die and one revives. Survivor takes residence in the deceased.


Do you get the same notion from the verse?
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I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.”
Galatians 2:20


This crucifixión with Christ accomplishes two impossible feats.


It solves two big problems


Sin


I am being crucified to the slavery of serving a law I am incapable of keeping perfectly. While it does not annul the law, it changes my relationship to the law. Making my relationship with Christ the part of me that fulfills the law.


Death


Jesus is the first person to raise from the dead. One may argue that others like Lazarus and others took that title already. By dying to self, Jesus was able to die to sin in the flesh which causes him to die to death as the grave is not permitted to hold prisoner one who never violated the laws of heaven or the laws of earth 🌏.


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So where do I stop ✋🏿 and Jesus begin 🏁 ? It begins in the morning first thing when you get up. You meet with Jesus at a special time and place. You invite him to be Lord of your life to give them full reign over your life today. When you fail, no matter how unworthy you feel, you get back up and confess to Christ that you are unable to do it alone. Make a U-turn, a 180 degree from that thing in your life by recklessly abandoning it. Step forward in trust not knowing how it will be accomplished but trusting that God will do what he says he will do in his Word.

I once had the perfect body, now it's like high school all over again trying to solve this word problem.

Its Miss Givehand's birthday today. She will be 96 years old when we arrive at 4PM. There will be cake 🎂 and fried chicken 🍗 . How many pieces will Fred eat?
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I bet Christ was pretty fit especially since he was a carpenter. He had the perfect body. What was so special about his daily regimen?

👉Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so 👉that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
Romans 7:4

Look at the underlined words in the verse above. This seems to be a desirable thing that we can experience through Christ if we choose.

What does Christ's body do to make me dead to the law?

According to the verse, Jesus's body died. That's the same thing my body is going to do 💀. The only difference is that His body came back to life. A feat that all of our scientific artificial intelligence could never replicate.

The act of dying and coming back to life is pretty impressive all by itself 😳. At some point we need to discuss how He pulled that off. Or how he even became a human being in the first place.

The verse implies that Christ's death removed him from the jurisdiction of the law. That makes sense for anybody, if I died today would I still need to pay taxes? Maybe 😂.

Once I'm dead 💀 , would I be responsible for crimes 🔪 I committed while I was alive?
It makes me think of the death penalty, that once my heart stops no more payment💰 is required.

My death would somehow be the payment of my previous crimes. I also would not be able to commit any more crimes in the future

With our fallen nature, we have a perpetual affinity for law violation. Death death seems to be the only way to keep from breaking the law.

So let's say I'm dead on the table, my death was the payment method for my crime. What happens if I came back alive at the morgue?

I think the mortician her would be extremely alarmed call the police 👮, they would arrest me, detain me, investigate and probably try again. So it looks like to me that my death and resurrection does not pay for my crime.

What is it about Christ's death that removes sin?

Adam sinned for all humanity. Any descendant born into the world will bear his mark of sin. No one from within the race can redeem humanity.

After sin entered the 🌎 in the Garden of Eden, God entered into a covenant with man that at the right time he would give his son to redeem humanity. Jesus enters humanity, being grafted in by the Holy Spirit. Rather than having Adam and Eve parents, He is the new Adam.

What was so special about Jesus life?
It is almost like Jesus continued where Adam left off. His obedience to the Father out of love and relationship made him capable of keeping the law. This proves that in all things are possible.

Death is the payment method for law breaking
Death of law giver is the result of law breaking

What all of this means is that Christ paid the price of a lawbreaker having never broken the laws of heaven or on earth.

Jesus is raised from the dead, and having paid the price for sin and death, He now has jurisdiction over all.

Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to 👉die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.”
Romans 7:4

Would you like the perfect body? You can have it today. His perfect obedience to the law as a human being makes perfection possible for us through Him.

What does it mean to die? Your bodily functions cease to work. Your heart stops your blood stops flowing organs begin to die, the brain dies decomposition begins. You are no longer alive.

Meaning that you are unaffected in anyway by your surroundings. There's nothing anyone could say to you to influence your thinking, there's nothing that anyone could do to your body that would change how you feel. You feel nothing at this point.

What does it mean to "die to something?"
It would imply The opposite of "die to everything" to die to everything would be completely dead. Unaffected, unreachable.

To die to something, namely one thing or person implies that the person or thing being died to can influence us in some kind of way. Usually in a way that is undesirable or that can potentially hurt us.

What are things that people die to?
You may die to something good or bad,

Good and Good
It seems silly to mention this category because no one would die to something that is good for u and that is enjoyable to us.
An example would be to die to eternal life. As if to say I die to happiness. Unless I was misinformed about what eternal life was really like.

Good and Bad

​Good to me but bad for me
I could die to ice cream which is good and delicious but possibly dangerous because I may over eat it.

Good for me but bad to me
I could die to Brussel sprouts but that wouldn't make much sense because they are good for me but they don't tempt me. I could still eat them and be dead to the Brussel sprouts' disgusting flavor meaning I am unaffected by the part of it that disturbs me greatly.

Bad and Bad

Whatever the thing is will have to be tempting in someway. There wouldn't be a reason to die to something with no benefit.
On the other hand 🤚 , to use the example of death 💀 . No matter which way you slice 🍕 it, it is an inevitability that no one desires naturally. We have no choice in the matter. The natural emotion that springs up with an undesirable inevitable event is fear or anxiety.
There would not be a way to die to death because death is coming whether you like it or not. The part of death that would be worth dying to would be fear or anxiety of dying.

​Based on Romans 7:4