Davar Kingdom Of God

In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus (Rom 6:11). If you wish to have God’s word fulfilled in your life, you will need to accept the spiritual reality that the Bible teaches and live standing upon it by faith. In the above verse, pay attention to the verb “count.” Abraham counted the stars in heaven, and believed that God, who said, “So shall your offspring be,” had power to fulfill his word. Then, God also counted him as righteous. It is exactly in the same way that we were made righteous when we believed that God, who had raised Jesus from the dead, has the power to do the same for us according to his word. Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life (vv. 3-4). Note the expression, “don’t you know,” which indicates that the object of kno