The Reborn Supremacy

The Reborn Supremacy
No one who is born of God will continue to sin because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning because he has been born of God.
This is the supremacy we have in life. We are no longer sinners because the seed of God is in us. We have the very nature of God – the life of God.
There was only one life that lived the righteous life in full – the life of Christ. This life is reborn in us when we open our hearts to God.
This life has lived completely above sin. It is supreme over it. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not mastered it.
We reduce the supremacy of this life when we call ourselves “just sinners”. We were once sinners with no power over sin, but now we have power over all.
The saint is not just a sinner who fell down and got up. The saint is the Son of God living in man.
That’s why we are alive in Christ

The Reborn Identity

The Reborn Identity
I got one of those forwarded mails and for some reason, it piqued me. The message in it, paraphrased, went like this – I am a sinner saved by grace, it’s still in my nature to sin.
I agree we were sinners – some of us were the scum of the earth but in Christ, old things have gone. We are now SAINTS.
We have a new nature in us – the nature of God.
When we sin, it is because we have made a choice not to live by the new nature in us.
We reduce the sacrifice of Christ when we define who we are by what we were. Paul, when rebuking the churches found in sin, did not call them sinners, whether saved by grace or not. He would call them by their new identity – saints, holy people, called out ones, ... stop sinning.
Christ in His message to the churches gave them one identity – they belonged to Him. The falling churches were not sinners saved by Grace. They were Holy people set apart for Him.
This is our Reborn Identity.