So I have died? I have to ask myself what is God saying here? Let's unpack this a little. A true Christian has died to the world, it's passions and desires are no longer the lust of life. What passions and desires? The world looks at success different then God and therefore the things we place a high priority on like cars and houses, degrees and careers, the American dream, keeping up with the Jones' mentality and another thousand things that I don't have the space to get into here, but you get the point. Galatians 6:14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. The world no longer makes us happy. Our happiness is unable to be fulfilled by the worlds riches, culture or plan for your life. And if we are dead to the earth, and have renounced it as our happiness, it is absurd for us to set our affections upon it, and seek it. We should be like a dead thing to it, unmoved and unaffected towards it.
Dead to the world and hidden in Christ denotes security. We can be secure in our life when we are in Christ. So awesome to be a part of the world as a creation in it but not be a part of the world in its humanistic theology.
Pastor Patrick
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