Galatians 3: 25-27

(Galatians 3: 25-27)

『But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 』

 

The expression "dress in Christ" is the same as "Adam and Eve in the Lamb's Leather." Baptism is dressing in Christ. So we are in Christ. Clothes made from lamb's skin are made from the death of the Lamb. But those who are clothed with Christ are baptized into his death.

『Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 』 (Romans 6: 4)

It means that the physical body received from parents was buried in the grave. Thus, we are born with new life from God. This life is another creature. This life is to be born again. Rebirth is like the resurrection of Jesus. Rebirth is resurrection. Thus, those who are buried with Christ in the tomb (baptized) are saved from God. If we do not die with Jesus, we will not be saved from God. If we die with Jesus, we receive the grace of forgiveness from God.

『For he that is dead is freed from sin. 』 (Romans 6: 7)

 Faith from God must come to us. Salvation is not "I believe in Jesus," but "faith comes from God." Unless we are born again, we cannot be saved from God. "Reborn" is born of water and the Holy Spirit. This is the baptism. The flesh received from the parents in the water is buried, and born of the spiritual body from heaven. The death in water is explained in 1 Peter (3:20): if we had lived in the days of Noah, we were judged.

『Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 』 "Rebirth" means the body of the spirit received from God, not the body received from parents. Today, many church people have heard a lot about "born again," but do not realize the meaning of being born again. If people do not realize this, they are under the law of God's wrath. So they are still in sin.

The apostle Paul spoke of the spirit body in 1 Corinthians (15:44).『It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 』

The born again are reborn in the spirit body. So the spirit that died is alive. Many church people firmly believe that the physical body is resurrected. So people think of regeneration as a change of heart. Thus, people think of the physical and spirit minds fighting in the flesh received from their parents. That's a good idea. But. The physical body received from parents dies and is born again as a spiritual body. The born again is not two minds but two bodies. Thus, there is the body received from parents and the body of spirit received from God. The spirit man born from heaven must deny the body of flesh before the word of God.

Although the born-again man has a body from his parents, he must not forget that he has a body of spirit. The born again are guided by the Holy Spirit, not depending on the flesh received from their parents. Only flesh becomes a shell until biological death, because they must preach the word of God. Those who are in Jesus Christ are united with Jesus. Those who were united with Jesus died on the cross with Jesus and were judged. As a result of the judgment, the dead with Jesus went to hell with Jesus, resurrected with him in a spiritual body, ascended with Jesus, sitting at the right hand of God, and will return to earth with Jesus. This is the story of the one united with Jesus Christ.

『For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 』 (1 Peter 3: 18-19)

 Many church people say that "Jesus went to hell and preached the word of God." But that is wrong. Jesus went to hell with a repentant sinner and proclaimed that this physical body had gone to hell. Thus, the born again do not rely on the body of the flesh, but on the body of the spirit.

『Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.』(Romans 6: 6)

The Ark is Christ. Those who enter the ark are born again into the spirit body. Those who believe in Jesus but do not die with Jesus in the flesh cannot enter the ark even if they say he is born again. For they depend on the flesh they receive from their parents. The body received from parents has the original sin of wanting to be like God. Original sin cannot be forgiven by God, it is the object of death. The born again has two bodies, but we must deny the body received from our parents. If we do not deny the body of flesh, we cannot dwell in the body of the spirit. We cannot know whether or not the spirit body of the born-again is in the body received from the parents, but God connects them. Although flesh cannot be improved by original sin, if our conscience is alive, we will repent and return to the Word of God. Baptism is explained in 1 Peter 3: 9.

『Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing..』

If we do not repent, we cannot participate in the new birth. Repentance is the death of the physical self (old man). Although people think they have the assurance of salvation, those who are not interested in the death of the self (old man) are not obedient to the Word of God. Although the people of the church try to live holy and think they have received the Holy Spirit, it is of no use unless they are born again. It is not a matter of the mind, but a new creation of the body. After the body of the spirit is reborn, the Holy Spirit leads it. No matter how many people confess their sins, the Holy Spirit does not dwell in the flesh inherited from their parents.

『For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 』 (Galatians 5: 17)

So we must be born again of water and the Holy Spirit. Thus the repentant partakes in the death of Christ. To die is to give up the fleshly heart we have received from our parents before the Word of God. And we must keep the mind of the spirit. So we obey the word of God.

Although Abram was called by God at age 75, he failed to obey God's Word for 25 years. But at 99, he believed the promise of God's promise to give children next year. So God recognized Abraham righteously. Repentance is to abandon the fleshly heart and keep the heart of the spirit. We must confess our sins, but it is more important to be free from our sinful heart. Because the sinful heart comes from parents, the body of sin must be buried with Christ in the tomb. The carnal mind is an enemy with God. The fleshly heart cannot receive the word of God. It is important where your identity is. You must be in Christ. Those who are in Christ are saved from God. The physical things we receive from our parents are to be buried with Jesus in the tomb so that we can enter into Christ. It is not a change of mind in the body but a rebirth into the body of the spirit. This is the present resurrection.