COLD

Church Of the Living Dead

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If you took up your cross today, and lived by faith, then you experienced some degree of what it means to live a "resurrected" life. In that sense, being a disciple of Jesus means that every day in which we effectively die to self, sin, the world, etc. and by faith experience Jesus living through us, we are "living a new life" and the old "me" is dead.  Because of  our ongoing participation in Jesus' Death, Burial and Resurrection, we really are all members of the "Church Of the Living Dead."

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C.O.L.D.

I laughed so hard when I realized what that would look like!  So I thought, "well, it really is appropriate to think of our old life as being so dead that it is cold", or as one radio personality loves to say, we have "assumed room temperature."   Perhaps this could help us illustrate the Biblical teaching.  Repentance is not just saying we are sorry, and then asking for forgiveness. Repentance is making a covenant with God that we will never ever repeat the action we are repenting of. We are declaring ourselves dead to all that our repentance includes. As far as we  are concerned, we would rather die than be guilty of that sin again. That really is at the heart of what a covenant with God is like. 

So we can think of the sins of our previous 'existence' as being "stone cold!" and then laugh a little as we get up tomorrow and resume our place on the Cross so that Jesus may live through us by His power.