Nuggets from An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith by Dave Hunt - The Cross and Daily Living

Nuggets from An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith by Dave Hunt – The Cross and Daily Living

What power does the Christian have over sin that the Buddhist or good moralist doesn’t have? First of all, we have peace with God “through the blood of his cross” (Col:1:20And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
See All...). The penalty has been paid in full, so we no longer try to live a good life out of fear that otherwise we will be damned, but out of love for the One who has saved us. “We love him, because he first loved us” (1 Jn:4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
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Secondly, instead of struggling to overcome sin, we accept by faith that we died in Christ. Dead men can’t be tempted. Our faith is not in our ability to act as crucified persons but in the fact that Christ was crucified once and for all in full payment of the penalty for our sins.

Thirdly, after declaring that he was “crucified with Christ,” Paul added, “nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh I live by [faith in the Son of God], who loved me, and gave himself for me” (Gal:2:20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
See All...). The just “live by faith” (Rom:1:17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
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See All...) in Christ; but the non-Christian can only put his faith in himself or in some self-help program or phony guru.