25/07/2025
You’re either dead in sin or dead to it.
That’s it. Those are the two ways a human being can exist. There are no fences to sit on or grey areas to hide in. King Jesus doesn’t give us that option.
Instead, He gives every person a simple choice: receive Him or reject Him. Anyone who receives Him has life; anyone who rejects Him is doomed to death. You can’t play around with Jesus and sin. It’s one or the other. Only one of them can be your king.
If you believe in Him, your life has a defined before and after. Once you were dead in your sin, but now you are alive in your Saviour. You can’t keep what Jesus has cut off and thrown away. He has disposed of the old ‘you’, and made you a whole new person.
Sometimes, it’s tempting to try and sn**ch back something of what we once were. But Jesus warns us that anyone who intentionally tries to go back to their old life isn’t worthy of Him. A heart that isn’t all His is divided and unable to live for Him.
In Jesus, you are fully forgiven, completely free, and wholly loved, forever. You are dead to sin, with all of its shame, disgrace and destructive consequences, and alive in Him.
Today, if you are alive in Jesus, let sin be dead to you. Have nothing to do with all that He died to free you from. Leave it behind, look to Jesus, and let Him be your all-consuming and all-satisfying delight.
“You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.”
Read Colossians 2
