The Road to Union

#31 Counting is Possessing

Posted: Thursday, February 2nd, 2017
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About The Road to Union Series

The new creation exists in union with Jesus and the Father—a fact. Yet the road to union isn't based on attainment, but revelation and realization.

Devotional

Romans 6:11 NIV
…COUNT yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

The word translated as “COUNT, CONSIDER and RECKON” is a mathematical word. The NIV translates it accurately as ‘count.’

The only exact science – the only unchangeable, knowable science – is math. Math is factual. In any language, 2 plus 2 is 4…and so on.

When you have 5 apples, it is absolutely 5. In the same way, you can COUNT on the unchangeable FACT that you (the sinner) are dead in Christ. It is the only remedy for the ‘old self.’

Unless you believe it is done, finished and total, you will not be free. You don’t believe your way into it. You believe it is past fact. And as a fact, you can COUNT on it.

Counting is possessing, and the only way to deal with the ‘old sinning identity.’ Scripture offers no other remedy for the sinner but the grave of Jesus Christ—and that remedy is absolute and sufficient.

Other Devotionals in The Road to Union Series

Traveling Down the Road to Union #39 No Condemnation for Those IN Christ #38 Only the Spirit of Life #37 Keeping the Old Self #36 Only in Christ #35 There Is Now No Condemnation #34 Thanksgiving for Christ! #33 ALL is Solved IN Christ #32 Free of "ME"
#31 Counting is Possessing (Currently Viewing)
#30 Death is Past #29 The Grave is a FACT #28 Free of All Bondage #27 Prisoner of Two Laws #26 The Reality of the Crisis #25 Another Law Within Us All #24 The Law Written on the Heart #23 The Law is Spiritual #22 The Law and Sin #21 Spiritual Integrity #20 The Prison of Sin #19 The Old Man Rules #18 The Purpose of Christ: New Life #17 How Christ Did It #16 What Christ Did For All #15 Under the Law of Sin #14 The Son Revealed #13 Jesus' Last Prayer was for Union #12 One Spirit With the Lord #11 To SEE Union with Christ #10 Jesus Christ is IN You #9 That Crucial Little Word: IN #8 The Divine Nature Established #7 The Adamic Life is a Prison #6 Progression into Union #5 Alive in Union with Christ #4 Union is Now #3 Divine Union, Being One #2 The New Self Exists in Union #1 We Are One with Christ