We just came through Passover and reconfirmed our commitment we made with Him at baptism.
Romans 6:1. What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, so that grace may abound?
2. MAY IT NEVER BE! We who died to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?
3. Or are you ignorant that we, as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into His death?
4. Therefore, we were buried with Him through the baptism into the death A literal translation from the Greek, meaning one’s covenant death with Christ and His death through the operation of baptism by full immersion in water; so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, in the same way, we also should walk in newness of life.
5. For if we have been conjoined together in the likeness of His death, so also shall we be in the likeness of His resurrection.
6. Knowing this, that our old man was co-crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, so that we might no longer be enslaved to sin;
7. Because the one who has died to sin has been justified from sin.
8. Now if we died together with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him (A Faithful Version)
Now what? Is there anything we must do now that Passover-Lord’s Supper is over? Just as we came out of the waters of baptism cleansed by the Blood of the Lamb. It is not a time to let down. Don’t you feel clean and have a peace about you knowing that last year’s sins have been erased. I always try to put extra focus on the NEW MAN IN CHRIST, having put away the OLD MAN. Notice; 1 Corinthians 5:7. Therefore, purge out the old leaven, so that you may become a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. 8. For this reason, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (A Faithful Version)
We have gone through the Passover ceremony having our sins cleansed by the Blood of the Lamb.
2 Corinthians 13:5. Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Don’t you of your own selves know that Jesus Christ is in you? Otherwise, you are reprobates. (A Faithful Version)
G3985
Original: πειράζω
Transliteration: peirazō
Phonetic: pi-rad’-zo
Thayer Definition:
⦁ to try whether a thing can be done
⦁ to attempt, endeavor
⦁ to try, make trial of, test: for the purpose of ascertaining his quantity, or what he thinks, or how he will behave himself
3.to try or test one’s faith, virtue, character, by enticement to sin (A Faithful Version)
Are we ready to settle back into our normal comfortable life for another year. I pray we understand that we are just beginning again. Are we striving to obtain the above meaning (for the purpose of ascertaining his quantity, or what he thinks, or how he will behave himself). You might be thinking God knows who I am and I would say to you that is right.
Notice; Jeremiah 17:9. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? 10. I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings (A Faithful Version)
Not only at Passover, but our examining of our hearts and minds should be a daily thing. You might be thinking this is a little excessive, isn’t it? Why did Paul say he had to DIE DAILY in the 15th chapter of 1 Corinthians? He knew the power of the Adamic Nature—do we?
Brethren, are we keeping journals of our Spiritual journey? How is your walk in the faith any different than last year? Are we moving the needle as it were towards Christ? Do we find our new being putting on the mind of Christ, or still living in the old carnal Adamic nature.
Colossians 3:9. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man together with his deeds,
10. And have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him Who created him;
11. Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian nor Scythian, slave nor free; but Christ is all things, and in all.
12. Put on then, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, deep inner affections, kindness, humility, meekness and longsuffering;
13. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so also you should forgive.
14. And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection (A Faithful Version)
The above Scripture is what this time of year is all about. Putting our old man to death—and putting on the new man in Christ.
Think about this how did Satan gain control of the kingdoms of this world? Through man’s sins. If we remember what happened in the Garden of Eden. It was Adam and Eve that God gave dominion over the world. Important point—it was through disobedience that God relinquished it to the one they obeyed.
Romans 6:16. Don’t you realize that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, you are servants of the one you obey, whether it is of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness (A Faithful Version)
I can’t stress the importance of Passover—Lord’s Supper enough. Going through baptism and Passover have we relinquished the power of the old man and gave all things to the NEW CREATION IN CHRIST? To understand Satan, we must understand Scripture with the mind of the Spirit for, as Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 2:10. But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things—even the deep things of God.
11. For who among men understands the things of man except by the spirit of man which is in him? In the same way also, the things of God no one understands except by the Spirit of God.
12. Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is of God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God;
13. Which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Holy Spirit in order to communicate spiritual things by spiritual means.
14. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
15. However, the one who is spiritual discerns all things, but he himself is discerned by no one.
16. For who has known the mind of the Lord? Who shall instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. (A Faithful Version)
Brethren, we have a target on our backs. Our Adversary is relentless. He is seeking an opportunity to bring our old man back to the surface to show who we truly follow. Satan relentlessly is searching for his next victim. Don’t become his next victim.
Every time we overcome the Adversary; we are made stronger by experience. And the presence of the NEW MAN CHRIST JESUS is manifested within our being.
But of course, we don’t do it by our own human strength. But by the BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
Keep the Blood of the Lamb on the doorposts of your heart.
Brethren when we reflect, it should be over the price that had to be paid as a penalty for our sins. And the trust is that God the Father accepted this offering as the payment for sin.
Don’t take this offering lightly as we start another year in our journey to the promised land.
Your brother in Christ,
Ron
Spiritual Hunger – Ron Volk
April 30, 2024 by Shirley Gohner • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
We just came through Passover and reconfirmed our commitment we made with Him at baptism.
Romans 6:1. What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, so that grace may abound?
2. MAY IT NEVER BE! We who died to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?
3. Or are you ignorant that we, as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into His death?
4. Therefore, we were buried with Him through the baptism into the death A literal translation from the Greek, meaning one’s covenant death with Christ and His death through the operation of baptism by full immersion in water; so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, in the same way, we also should walk in newness of life.
5. For if we have been conjoined together in the likeness of His death, so also shall we be in the likeness of His resurrection.
6. Knowing this, that our old man was co-crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, so that we might no longer be enslaved to sin;
7. Because the one who has died to sin has been justified from sin.
8. Now if we died together with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him (A Faithful Version)
Now what? Is there anything we must do now that Passover-Lord’s Supper is over? Just as we came out of the waters of baptism cleansed by the Blood of the Lamb. It is not a time to let down. Don’t you feel clean and have a peace about you knowing that last year’s sins have been erased. I always try to put extra focus on the NEW MAN IN CHRIST, having put away the OLD MAN. Notice; 1 Corinthians 5:7. Therefore, purge out the old leaven, so that you may become a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. 8. For this reason, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (A Faithful Version)
We have gone through the Passover ceremony having our sins cleansed by the Blood of the Lamb.
2 Corinthians 13:5. Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Don’t you of your own selves know that Jesus Christ is in you? Otherwise, you are reprobates. (A Faithful Version)
G3985
Original: πειράζω
Transliteration: peirazō
Phonetic: pi-rad’-zo
Thayer Definition:
⦁ to try whether a thing can be done
⦁ to attempt, endeavor
⦁ to try, make trial of, test: for the purpose of ascertaining his quantity, or what he thinks, or how he will behave himself
3.to try or test one’s faith, virtue, character, by enticement to sin (A Faithful Version)
Are we ready to settle back into our normal comfortable life for another year. I pray we understand that we are just beginning again. Are we striving to obtain the above meaning (for the purpose of ascertaining his quantity, or what he thinks, or how he will behave himself). You might be thinking God knows who I am and I would say to you that is right.
Notice; Jeremiah 17:9. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? 10. I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings (A Faithful Version)
Not only at Passover, but our examining of our hearts and minds should be a daily thing. You might be thinking this is a little excessive, isn’t it? Why did Paul say he had to DIE DAILY in the 15th chapter of 1 Corinthians? He knew the power of the Adamic Nature—do we?
Brethren, are we keeping journals of our Spiritual journey? How is your walk in the faith any different than last year? Are we moving the needle as it were towards Christ? Do we find our new being putting on the mind of Christ, or still living in the old carnal Adamic nature.
Colossians 3:9. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man together with his deeds,
10. And have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him Who created him;
11. Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian nor Scythian, slave nor free; but Christ is all things, and in all.
12. Put on then, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, deep inner affections, kindness, humility, meekness and longsuffering;
13. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so also you should forgive.
14. And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection (A Faithful Version)
The above Scripture is what this time of year is all about. Putting our old man to death—and putting on the new man in Christ.
Think about this how did Satan gain control of the kingdoms of this world? Through man’s sins. If we remember what happened in the Garden of Eden. It was Adam and Eve that God gave dominion over the world. Important point—it was through disobedience that God relinquished it to the one they obeyed.
Romans 6:16. Don’t you realize that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, you are servants of the one you obey, whether it is of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness (A Faithful Version)
I can’t stress the importance of Passover—Lord’s Supper enough. Going through baptism and Passover have we relinquished the power of the old man and gave all things to the NEW CREATION IN CHRIST? To understand Satan, we must understand Scripture with the mind of the Spirit for, as Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 2:10. But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things—even the deep things of God.
11. For who among men understands the things of man except by the spirit of man which is in him? In the same way also, the things of God no one understands except by the Spirit of God.
12. Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is of God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God;
13. Which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Holy Spirit in order to communicate spiritual things by spiritual means.
14. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
15. However, the one who is spiritual discerns all things, but he himself is discerned by no one.
16. For who has known the mind of the Lord? Who shall instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. (A Faithful Version)
Brethren, we have a target on our backs. Our Adversary is relentless. He is seeking an opportunity to bring our old man back to the surface to show who we truly follow. Satan relentlessly is searching for his next victim. Don’t become his next victim.
Every time we overcome the Adversary; we are made stronger by experience. And the presence of the NEW MAN CHRIST JESUS is manifested within our being.
But of course, we don’t do it by our own human strength. But by the BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
Keep the Blood of the Lamb on the doorposts of your heart.
Brethren when we reflect, it should be over the price that had to be paid as a penalty for our sins. And the trust is that God the Father accepted this offering as the payment for sin.
Don’t take this offering lightly as we start another year in our journey to the promised land.
Your brother in Christ,
Ron