{"product_id":"the-ministry-of-the-word-vol-26-no-03-chapters-five-through-eight-of-romans-the-kernel-of-the-bible-1","title":"The Ministry of the Word, Vol. 26, No. 03: Chapters Five through Eight of Romans - the Kernel of the Bible (1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis issue of The Ministry of the Word contains the first eight of the sixteen messages given during the fall 2021 term of the full-time training in Anaheim, California. The general subject of this series of messages is \"Chapters Five through Eight of Romans--the Kernel of the Bible.\" These first eight messages and the subsequent eight messages (published in an upcoming issue) will focus on Romans 5 and 6. This general subject will then be continued in the messages of the spring 2022 term and will focus on Romans 7 and 8. The life and death form two contrasting lines in chapters 5 through 8, showing that man is at the center of a triangular situation between God and Satan, that is, between life and death. The tree of life and the tree of knowledge (the tree of death) issue in two lines--the line of life and the line of death--that run through the entire Bible and consummate in the book of Revelation. The line of life begins with the tree of life in Genesis 2 and issues in the New Jerusalem in Revelation 22 as the city of the water of life with the tree of life, the light of life, and the glory of life. Similarly, the line of death begins with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in Genesis 2 and ends with the lake of fire in Revelation 20. The kernel of the Bible is that Christ has been revealed into us as life and that we live, have our being, and exist by Christ as the divine life. God put us into Christ with the desire that we would be transformed and conformed to the image of His Son so that we might be thoroughly one with Christ. In this way we are built up together as the living Body of Christ to contain and express Christ for the Father's glory and for our glorification in Christ. Romans 5 reveals that the result of our justification is the full enjoyment of God in Christ as our life. To receive Christ as life, we must believe into Christ in order to pass through the procedure of God's judicial salvation and be justified before God, that is, to be approved by God according to His standard of righteousness. Through Christ's obedience unto the death of the cross, we have been constituted righteous and justified unto life. Thus, we have received God as grace for our enjoyment. This grace reigns in us, over us, and over all things so that we can enjoy the eternal life. In this way we, the believers, are able to reign in life by the abounding, multiplying, and reigning grace through righteousness unto eternal life. It is by the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness that we will reign in life over sin, death, worldliness, naturalness, individualism, divisiveness, and Satan. Romans 6 reveals that through our baptism we have been transferred out of Adam into Christ. Through being buried with Christ into His death and raised with Him in His resurrection, we have become identified with Christ; that is, we have become one with Christ in His death and resurrection, becoming one spirit with Him. Furthermore, we have become one entity with Christ as the wild branches grafted into Him as the true vine. We have been identified with Christ in His death, in His burial, in His being made alive in resurrection, and in His ascension. In our being resurrected with Him, we are to walk in newness of life; that is, we are to live in the realm of resurrection and reign in the divine life. Walking in newness of life is the kind of living that deals with everything of Adam within us until we are fully transformed and conformed to the image of Christ. The Announcements section at the end of this issue contains a list of upcoming conferences and trainings hosted by Living Stream Ministry and a website link for information related to similar events in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46696809038034,"sku":"530f5c72-e9c8-3ac7-98e6-6825db93c8a5","price":10.18,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_a716f38b-344a-4ccb-8b7f-9fb77d333704.jpg?v=1768024834","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/the-ministry-of-the-word-vol-26-no-03-chapters-five-through-eight-of-romans-the-kernel-of-the-bible-1","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}