OUR DAILY BREAD (Sunday's) : I L-O-V-E...

[cimi]

April 7
Sunday


I L-O-V-E...

READ:
Romans 6:1-11
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Now if we died with
Christ, we believe that
we shall also live with
Him. __Romans 6:8
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My husband and I were at a public swimming pool when the people around us started staring into the sky. A small plane was emitting smoke in the form of letters. As we watched, the pilot spelled out the letters: "I L-O-V-E." People began speculating: Maybe it was to be a marriage proposal. Perhaps a romantic man is standing nearby on a balcony with his girlfriend and will soon pop the Will-you-marry-me? question. We kept gazing upward: "I L-O-V-E Y-O-U J-E-." I heard young girls guessing: "I bet it will be Jen or maybe Jessica." He kept spelling. No. It was: "J-E-S-U-S." The pilot was declaring love for Jesus for many people to see.

A friend of mine often ends his prayers with "I love You, Lord." He says, "I can't help but say 'I love You' after all He's done for me." In Romans 6:1-11, our Bible text for today, the apostle Paul tells us some of what Jesus has done for us that deserves our love: He was crucified, buried, and raised to life. Because of that, those of us who have put our faith in Jesus now have a new life (v.4), we no longer have to be controlled by sin or fear of death (vv.6,9), and one day we too will be resurrected to live with Him forever (v.8).

No wonder we say, "I love You, Jesus!" __Anne Cetas

`````````````Redeemed__how I love to proalaim it!`````````````
``````````````Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb;``````````````
``````````````Redeemed through His infinite mercy``````````````
``````````````His child, and forever, I am. __Crosby`````````````
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To show His love, Jesus died for us;
to show our love, we live for Him.

***************Today's Bible Reading __ Romans 6:1-11**********************

1 What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin
that grace may abound?

2 Certainly not! How shall
we who died to sin live any
longer in it? 3 Or do you not
know that as many of us as
were baptized into Christ
Jesus were baptized into
His death? 4 Therefore we
were buried with Him
through baptism into death,
that just as Christ was
raised from the dead by the
glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in
newness of life.

5 For if we have been
united together in the
likeness of His death,
certainly we also shall be in
the likeness of His
resurrection, 6 knowing this,
that our old man was
crucified with Him, that the
body of sin might be done
away with, that we should
no longer be slaves of sin.

7 For he who has died has
been freed from sin. 8 Now
if we died with Christ, we
believe that we shall also
live with Him, 9 knowing
that Christ, having been
raised from the dead, dies
no more. Death non longer
has dominion over Him....

11 Likewise you also, reckon
yourselves to be dead
indeed to sin, but alive to
God in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

In verse 1, the apostle Paul reminds us of the danger of presuming
on the grace of God. It is possible that there were those in the
church at Rome who were advocating an immoral lifestyle, believing
that God overlooked such things because that is how grace
operated. Such a view, however, fails to balance the grace of God
with His holiness and can lead to lives that dishonor Him.

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