Married To Another

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.

Thank you Father for this day! Thank you Lord for this program. Father, we thank you; we bless your holy name, thank you Lord! Today’s program is called Married To Another. Let’s turn to Rom 7:4, Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. Wherefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. Jesus Christ dwells in our hearts by faith through the Spirit, and through our union with Him, in His love, we bring forth fruit unto God unto His glory. Verse 6, But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. Rom 8:1, There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit: married to another; serving in the newness of the Spirit. Verse 4, That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. How are we walking?  For they that are after the flesh do mind, (set their affection on), the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Verse 8, So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Verse 10, If Christ be in you, (married to Christ), the body is dead because of sin, (crucified with Christ; baptized into His death), but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Rom 8:4, …the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Verse 12, Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. If you are being led by the Spirit; if you are denying your flesh every day, taking up your cross, and following Jesus to do the will of the Father, you are walking as a son or a daughter of God. You cannot say so if you are walking after the flesh to do your own will. 

Let’s turn to Gal 5:16, I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. Verse 16, This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh…verse 18, But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Verse 24, And they that are Christ's…  are you Christ’s?  Do you belong to Jesus?  …they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 

Let’s look at Romans, chapter 6, verse 1, What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 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. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 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. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Verse 14, For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. Verse 22, But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Let’s look at 1 John 4:7, Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. Verse 16,  And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us.  

The only way that we can do this; the only way that we can truly walk in the Holy Spirit and overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil, and overcome our own flesh, is in the love of God. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation, or atonement, for our sins. We desperately need a revelation of the love that God has for us: that He would do this, and the love that Jesus has for the Father, and for us: that He would take that cup that the Father gave Him, in the Garden of Gethsemane, and go to the Cross, to suffer so greatly, in His body and His soul, though He had never done anything wrong, for us; to become sin upon that Cross; all the sins of the human race being laid upon Him, and to be separated from His Father for the first time in all eternity, and to die for our sins and shed His precious Blood to fully atone for them before the Father.  When the Father separated from Jesus, because He cannot fellowship with sin, that’s when Jesus cried out, My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me? 

Let’s turn there, Psalm 22:1, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, and from the words of My groaning? O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and am not silent. Verse 11, Be not far from Me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help. Many bulls have surrounded Me; strong bulls of Bashan have encircled Me. They gape at Me with their mouths, like a raging and roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; it has melted within Me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue clings to My jaws; You have brought Me to the dust of death. 

For dogs have surrounded Me; the congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet; I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me. They divide My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots. This is clearly talking about our Lord Jesus Christ as He suffered on the Cross.  He took it all;  Jesus took it all,  even separation from His beloved Father,  for one reason:  the love that God has for us,  that whoever lives and believes this report: that Jesus was crucified for our sins, and that He was raised again by the glory of the Father for our justification; that He overcame Hell and Death, and the grave; that He is at the right hand of the Father right now, alive forevermore, making intercession for us,  they shall be saved and inherit eternal life in Him. God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 John 4:16, And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. Do you know this love? Do you have understanding and revelation from God of His great love for you: that He gave His Son for you upon the Cross. Do you know this love? Do you believe the love that God has for you? God is love, and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.

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May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen.