The next programme only starts at 8.30pm. While waiting, I decided to blog some of my thoughts about today's teaching session by Rev. Reuben Ng. I am trying to bear with the noises created by two groups of campers rehearsing for their skits. I am also their DJ because they want to incorporate some music into their plays and I have just searched the soundtracks they requested for. Very creative, these young ones! I am so proud of them. :)
This morning, Pastor Reuben reminded me in his message that when Christ died for our sins, we also died with Him. Not as in a physical death but a spiritual one. Meaning to say that we have been cleansed from all our sins and we are no longer held ransom by them. They have no power anymore. We have basically died to sin!
The reason why many still struggle with sins because we allow ourselves to but in actual fact, we are no longer bound by the slavery of sin and death. It was liberating to know that.
Pastor Reuben brought up an example about how we sometimes judge others. If we allow sin to come into play, then nothing positive will ever come out of our perception of that person we have a problem with. The scary thing is it will only get worse. Slowly it leads from prejudice to a grudge and then to hatred.
The opposite is this - if we know well in our hearts that sin is no more a master, then our view will be governed by how Jesus would look at the person we have a problem with. Simply put - we will see that individual as Jesus would. We will shun off all evil thoughts and allow love to lead the way.
Praise God for the above-mentioned! :)
Well, these are my thoughts for now. I shall write more later.
"What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin — because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace." Romans 6:1-14
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