Our Purpose Devotion
October 31st
We Cooperate with Only One Kingdom
We once were children of disobedience now we are children of His Kingdom. We obey the nature that God has set in motion in the earth. When we don’t cooperate with the nature of God that was imparted in our born again spirits it is sin. We have been designed to cooperate with one kingdom, and one kingdom only. Sin is anything that is not of the working of the Holy Spirit that has been provided.
Whenever the Word speaks about the gift of God it is speaking about the promise of the Holy Ghost and what His working in our lives will produce. Sin only promises death and separation from Life Himself.
Romans 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
[AMP 23 For the wages which sin pays is death,
We see the wages sin pays through the fall of Adam.
Genesis 2:16-17
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
[The payment for sin is death.]
This is separation from Life or God. Through Adams transgression he brought deaths rule over everybody.
Romans 5:17
17 It is true that through the sin of one man death began to rule because of that one man.
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Death ruled over mankind through the first man (Adam’s) sin. But through the last Adam, Jesus, we have life.
Romans 5:12, 17
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
When the sin nature is allowed to have its way, it will bring forth death.
James 1:15
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
If sin produces death, then for Jesus to save His people He needs to set them free from what produces death. If Jesus came to save us from deaths rule and dominion then He came to bring us under life’s rule and dominion. We need to ask the question if sin produces death, what produces life? If sin (which is unrighteousness) produces death, Righteousness produces life. Jesus came to save His people from deaths reign through sin, by bringing us under life’s reign through His righteousness.
For man to be restored to life we had to be restored to His righteousness. There is nothing that man can do to achieve this. It had to be by grace.
Romans 5:21
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Everything that comes from God contain all that He is in it, so His working in us brings forth His holiness. There truly is only one Kingdom we cooperate with as His children. We reign in life through Jesus.
We will continue tomorrow
May your day be filled with all His goodness. 😊
Pastor Kevin Vaughn