9/23/25

Romans 8:10 NASB95 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

I am very close to my next Birthday. 56 is the number. I am very confident that this body has had many more days in its past than it has in its future. This, however, does not bother me. In fact, I look forward to the day when I shed this decaying body. I KNOW that when that day comes, this body will return to dust, but I will continue to live. I will not just live but I will LIVE. This body began to die the day it began to live. However, I began to live the day that Christ took up residence in me. He did not heal my body but my soul, which is life, as He brought righteousness into my spirit.

This and only this is true life. It is found in righteousness through Christ.

The other side is death it is found in sin by being out of the will of God. Romans 5:12 NASB95 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned.

The moment of conception, the sin seed is planted through the Father, and the body begins to die.

However, at the moment of justification, your spirit gains real life through Jesus. This is the moment of Salvation. Though the body dies in sin, your spirit lives eternal in Jesus with the Lord.

Therefore, as I said, though many more days lie behind this body than before, life will continue to grow in me and will be experienced in the greatest sense when this body dies and my spirit lives in the Righteousness of Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:1-9 NASB95 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge. Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— for we walk by faith, not by sight— we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.

If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Then comes the day of a perfect body at the rapture. However, that will be another Devotional.

If Christ is in you don't fret death because you will never experience death. That is reserved for sin, and you are in Christ's righteousness!

That deserves an Amen.

Love Bro. Scott