{"id":172,"date":"2008-11-03T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=172"},"modified":"2008-11-03T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T01:48:00","slug":"rom-63-4-being-raised-with-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/172\/rom-63-4-being-raised-with-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Rom 6:3-4 Being Raised With Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"color:#000000;\">RE:\u00a0 Romans 6:3-4:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?\u00a0 Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">These well-known verses from Rom 6 take on a new life in the light of the parable about the &#8220;manner of the Jews&#8221; (from a recent\u00a0NT class).\u00a0 We are raised &#8220;just as Christ was&#8221; so that &#8220;we too&#8221; might have the new life. \u00a0Jesus was raised and got &#8220;unwrapped&#8221; from the binding burial cloths.\u00a0 It is intended to be the same for us.\u00a0 It is interesting that the &#8220;might walk&#8221; is subjunctive.\u00a0 It is possible, the potential to do it is available but WHO will do it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I like how the ESV does it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">3\u00a0 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> 4\u00a0 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, <strong>just as<\/strong> Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, <strong>we too<\/strong> might walk in newness of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When God says something it changes the view of most anything!\u00a0 What a weekend!\u00a0 I really feel less and less a part of this planet. \u00a0Who of those who once knew me could know me now?\u00a0 This is the only way to be a stranger. \u00a0There were things said and done that were from out of this world and will take you right out of this world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What you said about becoming food others can eat!\u00a0 My, my, my, my, MY!\u00a0 Words of eternal life!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Funny thing, you get &#8220;wrapped up, tied up, tangled up in Jesus&#8221; and the truth is you are unwrapped, untied and disentangled from this world!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Damien<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John RE:\u00a0 Romans 6:3-4:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?\u00a0 Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}